Some Luck by Jane Smiley

Yawner.  Plodding.  No excitement. Narrative of an Iowa farm family from the 1920’s to 1953.  Walter and Rosanna raise five children. There are the neighborhood children, school teachers, neighbors, extended family; lots of characters but very few are well developed, although each of the five children get more print than the others. They are surviving through the depression, World War II, and the social changes of the post war era.  From plowing with horses to tractors.  It traces other farming changes. It’s bland.  5 out of 10 and five is just because it’s my Iowa and I recognize places mentioned and lived some of those same changes.