Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf

This is the rare kind of book I can see recommending to almost anyone. Kent Haruf is such a beautiful writer, and while I loved Plainsong, one of his earliest books, this one had more depth. Haruf writes in a deceptively simple way. Not much happens in this book, and on the surface these characters…

Plainsong by Kent Haruf

I loved the way this book was written. Haruf writes about a small rural town, Holt, Colorado, in a beautiful way. It’s the story of Tom, a teacher whose wife is going through some kind of depression and leaves him and their two boys. And Victoria, a teenager whose mother kicks her out of the…