‘The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call ‘out there’.’īeing a farmer’s daughter, I was soon immersed in the detail of the Cook family’s daily life on their Iowa farm ‘out there’: the drainage of the land, spreading manure, moisture levels, the hogs, the purchase of a new tractor, yields, profit and loss. The first page took me straight to that wonderful description of In Cold Blood, Truman Capote’s description of Kansas, more remote farmland. You know: the one that won the Pulitzer, the one that mirrors King Lear, etc etc. But first, I felt I should read that book I wish I’d read years ago: A Thousand Acres. Jane Smiley’s latest book, Some Luck, is the first of a new trilogy and is currently sitting on my Kindle waiting to be read. This is one of those books that I should have read years ago, I don’t know why I didn’t, and I wish I had.
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