This is a pleasant enough book, basically a reminiscence of 1919 Butte, Montana. Morrie Morgan, a character from Doig's earlier novel, "The Whistling Season", blows into Butte, penniless and without prospects, and becomes a peripheral character in a conflict between the miner's union, a communist worker's group, and the mine owners. The conflict can be summarized as: union good, communists bad, capitalists evil. Only the union viewpoint is examined - none of the characters belong to any of the other groups.
There is not much depth here. The plot is thin, the characters are not surprising or even very interesting, and the ending is blah. Doig's earlier novel, "The Whistling Season", was much better.
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