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Vinegar Hill

A. Manette Ansay

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"I decided to read "Vinegar Hill" while doing some shopping and on a rampant book reading splurge, decided to pick it up. It had Oprah's Book Club symbol on it. And I'm a sucker for Oprah's Book Club. But I don't admit that to a lot of people, so if we could keep that between you and I. "Vinegar Hill" is about a family of four who move back to Wisconsin after the husband becomes unemployed. Well, the wife the husband, her name is Ellen, grew up in this area, this town and they move back in with her in-laws. The book is both character driven and plot driven. Her writing style, I really liked and I think this was actually her first book, her first novel. It delves into kind of this, the in-laws are very abusive, very hurtful and kind of why they are the way that they are and how Ellen deals with it accordingly with her husband becoming distant and kind of not really being present because he is back in this abusive relationship with his family. This book made me slightly uncomfortable. It was very depressing. It was very dark. This is not a book you want to read in the middle of winter when it's dark outside. If you want, it's not upbeat in the very least. It's very sour. It's very acidic. It does have a little bit of sweetness towards the end, but overall it was just, it was very morbid. It flows very well and gets you into the character's world. You don't want to be there though. I would read other books of hers, just because I like the way that she writes. But this one is probably not top of the list. I would give this, book two and a half stars. It's readable, but it's not a great read."