The GOLDEN YEARS: THE FIRST HALF is a tour of an America, wounded and festering. Its Northwest working-class people are badly damaged: Vietnam vets, bigoted townspeople, and good men sidelined by history. At the novel's center is Luellen, bound to a psychotic husband, barely literate but wise, encoding her waking dreams and nightmares on postcards from Hell. Reading this book is a terrifying ride through time in which the personal…Read More