You might enjoy reading "Spoon River Anthology", by Edgar Lee Masters, which was one of the inspirations for
Our Town. It's a cycle of short free-verse testimonies "spoken" by the dead in a small town cemetery. Reading them builds up a sort of kaleidoscopic portrait of everything that went on there over the course of a generation or two. Each of the characters only speak once, like a epitaph, so all the way through you're putting pieces together, and by the end you're really anticipating what the key figures in a couple of the sub-plots will say. It's really cool!
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