Description
Warm, gentle, funny, sometimes sad, these twelve stories weave common themes into a variety of patterns, each distinctive and yet related to the rest. These themes—the humor and folktales of the rural Midwest, the bonds between generations and the friction those bonds create, the tensions between a character's country past and city present—are at once archetypically American and specific to each story's particular reality.

Reviews
"Mining a vein that's been tapped by writers from Washington Irving to William Kittredge, this collection should please readers with a bent for rural fiction." —Publishers Weekly

"Brown, who has also written plays and a novel, possesses a strong sense of place; the reader smells the prairies and walks through the dying small towns with boarded-up windows. Recommended." —Mary Margaret Benson, Library Journal

“Richard Brown’s collection of reminiscences of life in Missouri is full of deeply realized characters and situations. Brown’s stories evoke feelings of sadness and joy, regret and loss, and always maintain a strong sense of place. The reader smells the prairies while walking through the dying small towns.” —Northeastern Nevada Historical Society Quarterly

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