I enjoyed the book. It is pretty much everything that the review below me (Corinne) said. The writing was so good that during a several week long heat wave with temps over 90 every day, one day I’d been reading about being in ND in January and opened the door and expected it to be cold! But at the end I thought mostly, ummm, why? Loved the characters though, and loved the miraculous father.

Mimi recommended this book to me. It was a beautiful story. It didn’t “touch my soul”, as it did for another reader, but I thought it was interesting, unique, and well told. The characters were well developed and I liked that the story was told from the point of view of an 11 year-old but with the insight of an adult (the same man looking back on the events).