![]() ![]() This coming-of-age story is driven as much by the fully realized characters as it is by the astute ideas about progress and place. ![]() Though the pacing is somewhat uneven, Quindlen’s prose is crisp and her insights resonant. A coming-of-age-story at its center, protagonist Mimi Miller, narrating from four decades later, recalls her. Quindlen’s story is a detailed and emotional look at a family in Pennsylvania beginning with the 1960s. It made the New York Times Bestseller list. Meanwhile, she forges her own escapes into school, romance, and sex. Miller’s Valley is a 2016 fiction novel by novelist and journalist Anna Quindlen. She watches as her brother, Tommy, tries to escape a feeling of stagnancy by enlisting in the military, only to find himself more trapped than before. She also wonders about her reclusive aunt, who lives in a small house on their property and never ventures outside. Her father refuses to relocate, and seeing his stubbornness, Mimi begins to understand her mother’s own unrealized dreams. Government officials warn that a flood could drown the family farm, and Mimi observes her community’s reactions while trying to reconcile her own ambitions with her loyalty to home. ![]() ![]() Mimi Miller recounts her life beginning in the 1960s in Miller’s Valley, a small Pennsylvania town where her family has been firmly rooted for generations. Quindlen’s latest novel, following Still Life with Breadcrumbs, is a moving exploration of family and notions of home. ![]()
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