The Tie That Binds
By: Kent Haruf
Genre: Adult Fiction
Pages: 256
Published: 2000
Read: December
3 out of 5
One of my
favorite book/trilogies of 2014 was Plainsong,
so of course I wanted to read more from Haruf. If I wasn’t comparing this novel
to the trilogy, I may have rated it higher. It is definitely worth the read,
but I had higher expectations. There are two main reasons it slightly disappointed
me. First, Plainsong involved the
entire community. Haruf writes as though his characters were your friends; this
story focused on only two families so the reader loses that bond. Secondly, the premise was about an 80 year old
woman being on trial for murder. However, that is only mentioned at the
beginning and the tail end of story with no outcome mentioned. With that said, Haruf’s
writing is still phenomenal and the emotion he can evoke from his readers for
the characters is amazing. It’s that when I read the synopsis, I thought it
would be different and it didn’t compare to Plainsong.
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