For me, Kaye Gibbons is one of those authors I’m supposed to love… but don’t. As I picked up On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon I said… “I hope it’s better than Ellen Foster… or …whatever the short story was that was in The Awakening etc…”
It was but it was still a slow read, I still didn’t really care about any of the characters and I just kept thinking I’ve heard this story before.
Southern father, daughter likes to read, falls for northerner, everyone lives unhappily yet happily ever after… at least those who fought against slavery did, the rest of the folks just died. It was the civil war, after all.
I have finished it and I’m still waiting for a Kaye Gibbons book that I really love, not one that is just “good for me”.
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