Sometimes A Great Notion

and why I think everyone should read it.

The last human vestiges of the world described in Ken Kesey's epic, Sometimes a Great Notion, were still around when I was growing up in the foothills of the Cascades in the 1990s.  Released two years after One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Sometimes a Great Notion follows a college student, Leland Stamper's, return to a coastal Oregon town from his New …