Downtown Owl by Chuck Klosterman

The book takes place in a tiny North Dakota town in the months preceding a giant blizzard. We're introduced to 3 characters: Mitch, a high-school boy; Julia, a high-school teacher; and Horace, an elderly widower. We never hear about these characters interacting. Instead, the book devotes chapters to each character and that is how we follow their lives during this time. As I read it, I kept waiting for something... anything... to actually happen. And when it does, the book ends. While I thought the characters were well developed and interesting, the book was just OK. -June