Genre: Novel
Grade: B+ (B)
Notable People: Elizabeth Tallent
Title: Mendocino Fire
Review: This is an interesting set of stories/novellas by this California writer/academic that are alternately set in California and Iowa. they roughly trace the life path of a college professor (clearly the author) through a series of romantic entanglements, life changes and family crisis. Very-very well written but somewhat obtuse and quite esoteric at times. You almost have to have gone to grad school to keep up. If you’re willing to struggle a bit with her intellectualism, there is some vivid material here. Hard to rate this one…so I took the easy way out with a range