This collection of linked stories is a love letter-or better yet, a love song, to small town America as portrayed in the fictional town of Morgan Grove, Missouri. A former songwriter himself, Watson stays true to his Nashville roots by taking on the plight of the common man. But while he gently examines the simple lives of the "nice people" who inhabit this virtual Ozarkian paradise, with its burnt orange sugar maples that lure people to come "and make some of them stay," Watson doesn't wax nostalgic just for the sake of reminiscence. (Though he does admit "in my mind [Morgan Grove] is very real; it's a compilation of my parents' hometown of East Prairie, Missouri, and many of the Ozark towns I visited on weekends during my high school days." And there is something wistful about the book, some underlying yearning for a place that doesn't exist.)
This collection of linked stories is a love letter-or better yet, a love song, to small town America as portrayed in the fictional town of Morgan Grove, Missouri. A former songwriter himself, Watson stays true to his Nashville roots by taking on the plight of the common man. But while he gently examines the simple lives of the "nice people" who inhabit this virtual Ozarkian paradise, with its burnt orange sugar maples that lure people to come "and make some of them stay," Watson doesn't wax nostalgic just for the sake of reminiscence. (Though he does admit "in my mind [Morgan Grove] is very real; it's a compilation of my parents' hometown of East Prairie, Missouri, and many of the Ozark towns I visited on weekends during my high school days." And there is something wistful about the book, some underlying yearning for a place that doesn't exist.)
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