Old Border Road: A Novel
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Katherine must find her own way during a dangerous months-long drought, when everything seems to be disintegrating around her. Susan Froderberg's incantatory language — and her deep knowledge of both the complexities of a small, deeply-rooted place and the human heart — make Old Border Road soar.
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Susan Froderberg. (2010). Old Border Road: A Novel. Little, Brown and Company.
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- Katherine is 17, living alone in the beautiful, desolate landscape of southern Arizona. Her mother is feckless, her father busy with his new family. Meeting Son, the scion of a local rancher, seems like deliverance. They marry and live as a family in his parents' venerable adobe house, but it soon becomes clear that Son is a man who, as his father says, has a "young heart near withered beneath the breastbone."
Katherine must find her own way during a dangerous months-long drought, when everything seems to be disintegrating around her. Susan Froderberg's incantatory language — and her deep knowledge of both the complexities of a small, deeply-rooted place and the human heart — make Old Border Road soar. - reviews
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October 11, 2010
Froderberg's shimmering debut set against the dusty, barren backdrop of the American southwest explores the joys and consequences of young love. Katherine, a new arrival to southern Arizona, is only 17 when she marries Son, the son of a local rancher. The couple settles in his parents' adobe home, and Katherine's new in-laws counsel her on life, "...like how to hide a stitch when taking a proper hem up, and the way you make a chili roast and a casserole and a lemon pie, stiff whites and all." An extended dry spell sets in motion a series of hardscrabble events that bring havoc to the newlyweds; Son's increased drinking, casual infidelities, and frequent departures leave Katherine doubting her decision. She soothes her regret with a budding affinity for horses, in time abandoning the marriage and terminating a pregnancy. Her dire situation comes full circle after Son is thrown by a horse and a drought-ending storm keeps them from getting him medical help, but affords Katherine a chance to revive her hobbled marriage. Froderberg's distinctive narrative about life in the desolate borderlands is simple yet gilded with grandly descriptive flourishes and lush colloquial language.
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In Froderberg's highly stylized, uniquely voiced first novel, a young bride's growing disillusionment about her marriage coincides with the drought plaguing her Arizona community.
Seventeen-year-old Girl, whose briefly sketched, quickly forgotten parents have left her pretty much on her own, marries Son, the heir to a successful rancher, after a short, passionate courtship. Son's mother and father, called Rose and Rose's Daddy, are loving in-laws and their ranch was a paradise of fecundity in its time, as Rose's Daddy explains in elaborate recitations. But a drought has set in, both physical and spiritual. Without water, the local economy is in a tailspin. The ranch sits above an aquifer, and in the past Rose's Daddy has made a fortune selling off water. But now he is struggling. Son is soon leaving Girl to drink and entertain other women, in particular the daughter of his father's longtime mistress Pearl. Deeply religious Rose withers away and dies, but not before she's introduced Girl to Padre, a New Age minister. Son's father sinks into a deep depression, ultimately committing suicide. Son's mourning takes the form of profound anger and even wilder carousing. Girl seeks counsel from Padre, on whom she develops a profound and requited crush. She moves off the farm and stays briefly with Pearl's father while Pearl and her mother are "north," where Pearl is preparing to give birth, possibly to Son's child, an irony since Girl has an abortion. But Son begs Girl to return to him and together they prepare for the big rodeo. The church burns down, and Padre moves on to another parish. Son is thrown from his horse, sustaining major neurogenic injuries that leave him with a ruined face and completely dependent on Girl. And then the rains come. Realism is not the point in Girl's elliptical narrative, told in a vernacular that mixes biblical grandiosity and down-home grit.
An undeniably audacious, if self-consciously Southwest Gothic debut that fans of Cormac McCarthy should adore.
(COPYRIGHT (2010) KIRKUS REVIEWS/NIELSEN BUSINESS MEDIA, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.)
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In this first novel, Katherine is still a teenager when she marries Son and moves with him into his parents' adobe house in southern Arizona. The marriage quickly goes sour because of Son's infidelity and irresponsibility. But Katherine grows close to her in-laws, who seem to parent her better than her own parents did, and with their help and that of a few other mentors, she finds her inner strength and begins the path to self-actualization. The details of ranch and rodeo life are atmospheric, but there is a vagueness to the narrative style that makes the story hard to engage with. Seemingly important information is glossed over, and occasional shifts into nonlinearity are confusing. Too often the prose is indirect to the point of incoherence, as in "I'm trying to find the true place I know to get the feelings right that I had had there once." VERDICT Expect some regional interest in Arizona, where the author lived for seven years; otherwise, not an essential purchase.--Christine DeZelar-Tiedman, Univ. of Minnesota Libs., Minneapolis
Copyright 2010 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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Seventeen-year-old Katherine, living in the harsh landscape of southern Arizona, marries Son, the son of a local rancher, after a brief romance. Her mother, myopic and forever remarrying, and her father, who lives far away in California, have little influence over her life. After a brief and joyous honeymoon, she moves in with Son at his parents old adobe house. Their marriage quickly turns sour as Son begins staying out all night on the town, returning after sun-up reeking of booze and women. Katherine spends most of her time with Sons father, a prophetic old man whose speech is reminiscent of biblical verse, and Rose, his mother, who has a quiet, patient demeanor. Dubbed Girl by Sons father, Katherine learns how to work the ranch and ride horses and begins to train to ride the barrels at the upcoming rodeo while she and the family battle through the toughest drought in recent memory and Sons increasingly intolerable behavior. Froderbergs novel is deliciously poetic, surprisingly timelessthough set in the present dayand undeniably western.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2010, American Library Association.)
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