seamless use of flashbacks.....

ok, so i am impressed by the book i have been reading today...gilead by marilyn robinson......it is at the same time sweet, unsettling, and moves forward despite the necessity of remembrances........flashbacks that would make even faulkner proud.......i mis-spoke in an earlier blog about chapters.....this book has no chapters...it is a single letter written by a dying preacher to his young son......and though it covers a lot of family history......it is done so cleverly as to not come off like an extended obituary.......