This book is rather like going around the outside of a house and peering through the windows, one by one, over and over. If you do it long enough you ll probably figure out what s going on inside, but it will take time, and not every reader will have the patience for it.
Plums revolves around the lives of a group of people in small-town Georgia.
The central character is Roger, a plant pathologist specializing in diseases of the peanut. The story opens with Roger being featured on the cover of an agricultural magazine, and everyone in town posting his picture somewhere. The book is structured more or less in vignette form. Because the point of view is usually omniscient, readers aren t given much access to characters thoughts. It takes time to understand these people.