Amazon.com description: Product Description: Set in Southwest Louisiana, these stories depict the lives and struggles of working-class people trying to make it in a world where the odds are stacked against them. The title story takes place in a rundown country brothel run by a Korean war veteran where the star attraction is a chimp named Daisy. In "Window Unit," an ambitious trailer park manager lets his greed get the best of him. In "The Boy," Ray's past is dredged up when a neighborhood boy dies on his property. "Fletchers" depicts a fundamentalist Christian girl trying to understand her family's beliefs. In "Dry Season," a fire-tower watchmen can see fires from miles but can't see the own flames in his personal life. Three young men struggle with the death of a friend and what to do with his widow in "Bearing Pall."