Dec 19, 2009
A sprawling, episodic family history, Beyond the Bedroom Wall conveys with extraordinary fidelity and an enlightening sense of wonder the lives of ordinary people. It focuses on the Neumiller family, originally of North Dakota, but ranges over their extended families, their antecedents, and their communities. In doing so, the novel succeeds at times, without particularly attempting to, in surpassing the conventions of its genre. It attains an idiosyncratic, though nevertheless authentic, eminence as an anthropology of the affections.
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