Downtown Owl is a story about life in the tiny town of Owl, North Dakota. We watch the several characters’ lives unfold — a high school teacher who has just moved to town, a HS kid who doesn’t quite fit in, former football heroes, and folks who’ve lived their entire lives in Owl without ever leaving.
They live and they learn. Klosterman’s characters are very engaging and by the end of the novel I found myself caring about what happened to them.