Patsy revisited

I finished reading Saul and Patsy, Charles Baxter's 2003 novel about a young couple who move to a small Midwestern town and find themselves the target of all sorts of confusion and, eventually, hostility. There was something comfortingly imperfect about the book -- I kept running across passages that I'd mentally edit. But I found myself caring about the characters and I really wanted to see what happened to them -- and isn't that the only good reason for finishing reading a novel?