Fall reads

The Borders sale is coming again, this time without A. :-(
I have just reread Montana 1948. It is spare and beautiful. I can hear his voice, I know the time and faces, the people are just like many I knew as a kid. The values, the accepted roles, the phrasings are familiar. Then as the story is played out you can feel the shock because it is so believable, as safe and ordinary as the lives were - the unthinkable was just below the surface.
(A different kind of storyteller altogether, Hitchcock spun his web of terror by telling stories about ordinary people as well.)