I try not to get deep into learning lessons from novels because then sometimes I end up learning some things that are not for real life times, but mostly because novels are not textbooks, even if they are about a smart and lovely soil scientist/instructor, so technically she could teach me about soil and science and the science of soil. Right. Moving on. But, if I was going to learn something from Claire Tacon’s debut novel In the Field, with it’s vivid small town dialogue and accurate portrayal of adolescent and adult drunk behaviors and also unsexy/realistic sex scenes it would be that it is probably not the best idea to ‘go home again,’ especially to a small town (this is just my own horrible prejudice) because that place has changed and you have changed and you probably don’t fit each other anymore, like that skirt from junior high that would be so cute right now, with all the 90’s throwback, OMG Winona Ryder was so great action, but really it used to fit your prepubescent body, so just no.
