It is, as the book jacket indicates, a cross between Jan Karon's "Mitford" series and Garrison Keillor's "Lake Woebegone" tales - a genre I've tentatively decided to call "Nostalgic Pastoral Fiction," with "Pastoral" used in its older sense rather than its religious one. If you find yourself in Camby, you're invited to attend a sermon.This is one of those books I'd like to give a 3.5 Gulley is also the Pastor at Fairfield Friends Meeting House in Camby, Indiana. Gulley lives in Indiana with his wife, Joan, and their sons, Spencer and Sam-in a rambling old house with Gulley’s eclectic chair collection (64 at last count) and a welcoming back porch. He hosts "Porch Talk with Phil Gulley" on the Indiana PBS affiliate WFYI television's flagship show Across Indiana. Along with writing Front Porch Tales, Hometown Tales, and For Everything a Season, Gulley is the author of the Harmony series of novels, as well as If Grace Is True and If God Is Love, which are coauthored with James Mulholland. Philip Gulley has become the voice of small-town American life. If you find yourself in Camby, you're invited to attend a sermon.
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