Straight Up Book

Interesting characters running into events that might face any of us make Straight Up an enjoyable read that leaves one wanting to know more about what happens to the group of people whose lives are intertwined with two thirty-ish cousins who come to Lexington Kentucky from faster paced lives on the east coast.

Looking for more meaning in a modern life, facing challenges and making community are themes that run through Straight Up and although spiritual themes are touched on, especially as the story comes to a close, this is not a preachy overtly religious book.

Although well written and comfortably paced, the book could have benefited by more straightforward presentation of storylines that are connected tangentially to the main characters and keep the reader slightly off balance and wondering about the connection until the last pages.