Review: Oslo, Maine

Oslo, Maine by Marcia Butler
My rating: 3 of 5 stars


Oslo, Maine
by 

Marcia Butler (Goodreads Author)

Dianne Socci-Tetro's review

Jan 10, 2021

I can not for the life of me to describe this book. Was it a mystery? Was it a coming of age story? Was it a pity party? Was it erotica?
If there was a trope to be found, this author found it and not in a nice way. However, I will say that this was un-put-downable, and it was a swift read.


TRIGGER ALERT--->What, in my opinion, amounts to wild animal abuse, then a very descriptive passage about butchering what amounts to one of the narrators ( a moose cow).

I'm going to leave this one up to you all, folks -I can't say that it is a horrible book because I couldn't put it down. However, I can not say that it was entertainment because it was just one misery after another.

*ARC supplied by publisher author and NetGalley.

SYNOPSIS: "A moose walks into a rural Maine town called Oslo. Pierre Roy, a brilliant twelve-year-old, loses his memory in an accident. Three families are changed for worse and better as they grapple with trauma, marriage, ambition, and their fraught relationship with the natural world.

Meet Claude Roy, Pierre’s blustery and proud fourth-generation Maine father who cannot, or will not, acknowledge the too real and frightening fact of his son’s injury. And his wife, Celine, a once-upon-a-time traditional housewife and mother who descends into pills as a way of coping. Enter Sandra and Jim Kimbrough, musicians and recent Maine transplants who scrape together a meager living as performers while shoring up the loose ends by attempting to live off the grid. Finally, the wealthy widow from away, Edna Sibley, whose dependent adult grandson is addicted to 1980’s Family Feud episodes. Their disparate backgrounds and views on life make for, at times, uneasy neighbors. But when Sandra begins to teach Pierre the violin, forces beyond their control converge. The boy discovers that through sound he can enter a world without pain from the past nor worry for the future. He becomes a pre-adolescent existentialist and invents an unconventional method to come to terms with his memory loss, all the while attempting to protect, and then forgive, those who’ve failed him."