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MY BOOK BEGINNING
Detective Sunderson walked backward on the beach glancing around now and then to make sure he wasn't going to trip over a piece of driftwood.
-- The Great Leader by Jim Harrison. This is Harrison's latest novel, the story of a retired (just) Michigan State Police detective tracking a cult leader on the lam for child abuse charges. The "mystery" plot is secondary to typical Harrison musings on age, sex, and the natural world.
I'm a big Jim Harrison fan and always enjoy his prose -- novels, novellas, essay, and memoir. His latest books, The Farmer's Daughter (reviewed here) and The English Major (reviewed here) didn't light me up the way his earlier books did. I don't know if it is because I'm getting older or Harrison is. But I still enjoy reading whatever he writes.