This was a very heartbreaking and heartfelt story. This was a long book but very much worth it. I will recommend.

This is one of those books that had a description that truly excited me for a number of reasons. Having lived in the Kansas City area in the 1960s, I was very eager to read the recent history that this book promised. In that respect it did not disappoint. However, I missed one of the descriptive words which was "hefty." This requires more commitment from the reader than I have. Additionally, it reads as a stream of consciousness work as it jumps from time period to time period and character to character and place to place. I just couldn't. But for those readers with the desire and time to read it, I believe it is a promising work of literature. If the editors were up to it, I'd read a book of selections from this work. But this long version is not for me. And that is no fault of the book itself.

Thank you to NetGalley for an advance copy of this book. I hope it finds the right readers.