A review by nina_rod
Everyone Dies Famous in a Small Town by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock

5.0

I really enjoyed the author’s first book The Smell of Other People’s Houses. She tied in all the characters of the book together in a neat little bow. So when this book came out in 2020, I excitedly preordered it and went to her author Zoom. Covid, yeah?

Anyway, it sat on my shelf for years. Until the 2024 Tacoma Library Extreme Reader challenge. One of the categories was author with a hyphenated name. This book by Bonnie-Sue worked! The category allowed for hyphenated first names too. 

I thought it would be about Alaska, like her previous book.  However, it included small towns in Alaska as well as Wyoming, Washington and Colorado. The book has the subcategories of stories, so I thought it would be an anthology. But the characters were somehow interconnected, so it made the books seem less like a collection of stories. Imma need to read this book again to get a flow chart going of how characters in small towns in different states know each other. And like all small town life, there was an element of horror to it. The author writes, in a small town you are known by the worst thing that happened to you. 

And I’m sad to say the book sat unopened on my shelf. I didn’t feel like reading it and downloaded the audiobook from the library. The book will remain on my shelf next to the author’s first book so I can eventually get that flow chart done!