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Our Lady of the Prairie by Thisbe Nissen

Our Lady of the Prairie

by Thisbe Nissen

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  • Jan 2018, 384 pages
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Joan V. (Miller Place, NY)

Our Lady of the Prairie
I really enjoyed the way Ms. Nissen used language. There were scenes where her descriptions made me almost laugh out loud. She made a tornado funny!

This book would be a fabulous choice for a book club because it was so confusing at times that I really wanted someone else's opinion to clarify things. At times she was all over the place - politics; flashbacks to French collaborators and then a fantasy ending. She also changed scenes very quickly ending one paragraph and then jumping into a scene several hours, or days later. It became confusing and the political rants didn't enhance the story. I also could havemore
Carm D. (Omaha, NE)

Our Lady of the Prairie
Very difficult to get through. I did not like this character, did not feel empathy for her. It seems this author chose to write about an area of America she does not really like. It was a waste of time. Being a Midwesterner, I was offended.
Susan S. (Lafayette, CA)

Not what I was expecting
I waffled between two stars and three stars. Three stars, because even though I did not like the book, sentence by sentence the writing was good. Two stars because I really disliked the main character, and was filled with irritation while I read. I think the author expected the reader to like her (or at least not supremely dislike her) and I was mystified about why other characters in the book liked her, particularly her husband and the other man who is also in love with her. We were also told repeatedly about what a saint she had been during a very difficult period in her daughter's life, but it didn't feelmore
Ann L. (Park City, UT)

Not my favorite
Positive: it is an easy read; not at all tedious. Negative: this book comes across to me as the author's platform to vent her negative political thoughts, and negative opinions of midwestern people. The plot is very thin, the characters boring and not well developed. It reads like so many novels of dysfunctional families, however with no depth or originality.
Nona F. (Evanston, IL)

Difficult protagonist
Phillipa Maakestad has a reputation as "moody and erratic ... difficult to work with," and says and does things throughout this novel which even she sometimes acknowledges as being "stupid and selfish." She lives in an Iowa that perpetuates the stereotype that the Midwest flyover states feature only farmland, bad weather, lack of cell service, one-star motel rooms, and truck stops where all food is fried and someone who looks like the Unabomber is always nursing a beer at the bar. Culture is an indifferently-directed (by Phillipa) university production of Drood! The end –of-the-world scenario Philippa agonizesmore
Nanette C. (Punta Gorda, FL)

Uappealing Protagonist and Forced Story
While the book had some enjoyable aspects, I ultimately found Phillipa highly irritating and unappealing. I finished without any understanding of her interior life (other than "woe is me") or how either the long-suffering Michael or the sexy Lucius could put up with her, much less love her. Nor did I understand her compulsion for immediate confession -- it seemed selfish more than anything else -- or the whole spanking scene. What was THAT supposed to represent??? I did like the chapter in which Phillipa dreams of a Nazi collaborating family for her mother-in-law, but I didn't get her obsession with her hatedmore
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