Vinegar Hill

Vinegar Hill, E. Manette Ansay, 1994, Viking. Genre: Fiction. 240 pages. Finished 5/30/2010.

LesOpinion: Some books are stories; some books are works of art. Vinegar Hill is a hymn in a minor key, beautifully written, compact, and forlorn. Do not read this book on a rainy day, in the depths of your own personal discord, or thinking that when author Amy Tan called it "Little House on the Prairie gone mad" she was implying it would be mad-funny.

Quote that proves my point: "She tries to feel the smugness of faith, to know she is important and that her life has great, if hidden, meaning. But the more she has tried to claim God, the more He has rejected her. She wants to be lost in Him, but He vomits her out again and again...."