Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

"Angle of repose" refers to the point where dirt settles and becomes stable after being dumped.  It is an excellent title for this book, and I love its uniqueness.  The narrator is a wheelchair historian who is telling the story of his grandparents.  The book also includes looks at the narrator's own life.  For most of the book, I was much more interested in the grandparents' story and was impatient to get back to it when the narrator sidetracked to his own life.  At the end of the book, though, you learn some things that made me much more interested in the narrator's life and that connect him intrinsically with the lives of his grandparents and explain his interest in their story.  I really enjoyed this book and highly recommend it.  It's definitely worth the time.