Snow Day

by Billy Coffey
Hennepin County Library hardcover 195 pages
genre: Christian fiction

Sweet, cute little book that made me frustrated by halfway through . . . it's more a collection of vignettes with morals than an actual novel. Thirty-something Peter Boyd takes a snow day when his kids have one. A day away from his factory job (that may not exist much longer) gives him a chance to reflect upon his life . . . and go to the Super Mart. For bread and milk and stocking stuffers and the first of many, many, many encounters with people who help him realize some deep truth about life.

I liked it okay. Some of the stories were cute (like the kid sledding down the hill despite his mother's concern). But it was too episodic and moralistic for me. Yes, the morals were good ones. And some of them even felt genuinely meaningful. But it just didn't work as a piece of fiction for me. More chicken soup for the soul, anyone?