Rating: 
Summary: Rings true
Review: What struck me reading other reviews was that people from around the U.S. and even one from Europe bothered to read it. I figured the reviews would be more along the lines of the bored reader from NYC. I thought the material was the kind only a small regional press might publish, if not the author himself privately for the benefit of a limited readership--mainly the people in the book.Which is all the more reason to celebrate the literary accomplishment achieved here. It is a subject matter that could easily have fallen flat on its face with anything less than the sensitivity and creativity with which Mr. Colt treats it. He pulls thoughtful meaning and associations out of past incidents and instances that for most of us are memories we retain for reasons we may not fully understand. Mr. Colt explains why such memories endure--their attachments to context and their contribution to the person they helped form. It makes me happy that such a story can have a mass appeal, since I am familiar with Wings Neck and some of its people. The story about the Colts, Atkinsons, etc. is played out in other coastal towns and alongside lakes and in mountains and valleys across America and beyond, wherever long-surviving family manses hold the history of generations. This one rings true.
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