Meanwhile, pregnant teenager Victoria Roubideaux, evicted by her mother, seeks help from kindhearted, pragmatic teacher Maggie Jones, who convinces the elderly McPheron brothers, Raymond and Harold, to let Victoria live with them in their old farmhouse. At school, Guthrie must deal with a vicious student bully whose violent behavior eventually menaces Ike and Bobby, in a scene that will leave readers with palpitating hearts.
Ike, 10, and Bobby, nine, are polite, sensitive boys who mature as they observe the puzzling behavior of adults they love.
High school teacher Tom Guthrie's depressed wife moves out of their house, leaving him to care for their young sons. Alternating chapters focus on eight compassionately imagined characters whose lives undergo radical change during the course of one year. Holt, Colo., a tiny prairie community near Denver, is both the setting for and the psychological matrix of Haruf's beautifully executed new novel. In the same way that the plains define the American landscape, small-town life in the heartlands is a quintessentially American experience.
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