![]() ![]() But her disappearance galvanizes the town, and fractures among the various families begin to show. Peggy often snuck out of the house to drink with friends or meet one of her many boyfriends. His life changes when his 16-year-old sister, Peggy, disappears in the middle of the night. Milo Ahern, age 12, also is a bit of an outsider, even though his family has lived in the area for generations and whose farm is near the Costagans. ![]() She saves her tenderness for Hal Bullard, their intellectually disabled 28-year-old farmhand who is, in a way, her surrogate child.Įrin Flanagan’s debut novel is “Deer Season.” She hides her loneliness and ennui with a brash, often rude personality. In addition to working with Clyle on the farm, Alma supplements their income as the no nonsense school bus driver. She has tried to be a part of the community, but she is still treated as an outsider, “Clyle’s city wife.” People speculate about why she doesn’t have children but few know or acknowledge that Alma suffered five miscarriages in seven years before she came to Nebraska. ![]() Short story writer Erin Flanagan persuasively delves into the joys and frustrations of small town-life and running a family farm in her lyrical debut novel “Deer Season,” set in Nebraska during 1985.įlanagan uses two residents’ viewpoints to tell the story of the community that begins to fall apart when a teenage girl goes missing.Ĭhicago native Alma Costagan has never felt at home in Gunthrum, Nebraska, where she moved about 14 years ago with her husband, Clyle, to run his family farm. ![]()
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