Elizabeth McCracken's Bowlaway
This novel starts with an unconscious woman being found in a cemetery; soon she is starting a local candlepin bowling alley (and claiming to have invented the sport) and marrying a local (black) doctor. From there, a sort of family epic unrolls, dealing with several generations in a changing town. I will say that while I was reading this, I enjoyed it a lot, but when I put it down, I was never in a huge hurry to pick up up again. After the first few chapters, it kind of introduces characters and drops them again, so that I never felt super invested in most of them. I thought the writing itself was excellent though--a few sentences had me like oh dang! I liked the way it wrapped up, too. B+.
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