She doesn't come home she isn't Found and the town decides that Hal Did Something. You know, as practice for when she'd be off at college.īut one fine night.the one before her little brother's going to be confirmed in the Lutheran Church, no less.she doesn't come home to have her hangover in her bed. The rampant drinking culture of the area and era was the source of the problem.Peggy, too smart and too young to control it yet, was in the habit of sneaking out on weekends to partake of the big, wild world of the after-hours partying at Castle Farm.

The major event of the novel is the disappearance of teenaged minx Peggy Ahern. Actually, it's just families farming land they'd inherited and living lives they don't feel embarrassed by. This time, the one we're inhabiting in this novel, feels like something from a Russian novel with peasants and kulaks and tsars in their palaces so far above us. Farming being the corporate endeavor it is now. It's set thirty-five years ago in a rural place that, in our own time, has doubtless vanished entirely. My Review: Have you looked at the cover image of this book? Go on, get your nose up to the screen.now did you notice the shape of that 'D' in 'Deer'? There's a clue in it.Īuthor Flanagan, no stranger to the 'Flyover Fiction' series with two story collections in it, here gives us her first novel. I RECEIVED A DRC FROM THE PUBLISHER VIA EDELWEISS+. Real Rating: 4.75* of five, rounded up because rounding down to four feels so.mingy.over some stupid w-bombs when the story was so deeply engrossing & moving

Deer Season by Erin Flanagan