A Simple Tune Reviewed by Linda Richards Plainsong is the most perfectly named book imaginable. A simple story of individual struggle with human problems dealt with in a very human way. There is no opus in Plainsong. No clattering crescendo for the triumph of good over evil. The real triumph for Plainsong is not for the characters, but for their creator.
Plainsong is set in a small Colorado hamlet, though the when is never clear.
Some of the characters drive pickup trucks. Others drive black cars. Some are school teachers and there are farmers and shopkeepers and none of these vocations depend on a when or even a why. The salient bits, however, are well drawn. Victoria Roubideaux is 17-years old and in high school.