Bug Hollow
Extraordinary candor and tenderness ... The family that initially felt so shiny and self-contained gives way to individual stories that butt up against one another at skewed angles. It’s not confusing; it’s eye-opening ... Right down to its final moments, Huneven casually offers up little revelations that crunch as sweet and tart as pomegranate seeds.
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Instantly seduces even the most news-addled reader with its lovely, lucid prose, its spot-on period details (those pay phones!) and superb gift for description ... The novel evolves from its innocent opening into something more intriguing ... Huneven is exceptionally generous with all of her characters — even the hard-to-bear Sibyl — and remains a compassionate guide through the secrets and lies, betrayals and chance encounters, losses and disappointments that buffet this broken and remade family over time. While the ending might be a little too honeyed, I remained hopelessly, gratefully under this novel’s spell.
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The book, built from a series of writing prompts, can feel a little too glued together, a little too pat ... Huneven’s writing can feel awkward, more clunky than literary ... Bug Hollow is not a book full of beautiful sentences, but it is a compelling family story with the feel of a television drama.
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