{"id":5383,"date":"2025-06-04T19:04:04","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T19:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=5383"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:10:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:10:50","slug":"book-talk-chris-whitaker-tall-oaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/book-talk-chris-whitaker-tall-oaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Talk: Chris Whitaker, \u2018Tall Oaks\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"5383\" class=\"elementor elementor-5383\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6b9680cb e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"6b9680cb\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-36bf880d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"36bf880d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>I\u2019ve now read all of Chris Whitaker\u2019s books, published as of 2025. I read his most recent book first and his debut novel last. However, each is a stand-alone novel, so the order in which they are read doesn\u2019t really matter.<\/p><p>\u201cTall Oaks\u201d (2016, 353 pages in paperback edition) is a small town, located in some unidentified California location where people know each other, although there is a range of residents from working-class people to professionals to the very wealthy. Although I\u2019ve travelled extensively throughout our state, I\u2019ve never encountered any place quite like it. But the author is British, and this may be an idealized vision of what \u201csmall town\u201d California must be like.<\/p><p>Nevertheless, the description of the characters in the town is so perfect that the reader feels that she or he knows each one and also feels the pain and sorrow when three-year-old Harry goes missing. That sense of loss punches one right in the stomach beginning in Chapter One when Jim, the local chief of police, listens to a recording of Jessica who recounts the events of the night when her son was taken.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve now read all of Chris Whitaker\u2019s books, published as of 2025. I read his most recent book first and his debut novel last. However, each is a stand-alone novel, so the order in which they are read doesn\u2019t really matter. \u201cTall Oaks\u201d (2016, 353 pages in paperback edition) is a small town, located in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-5383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-literature"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}