The unlikely residents of northern Greenland Township, including a sixth-generation farmer, evangelical bartender, and tabloid-reading agoraphobe, are challenged to put aside their differences when something unexpected occurs in October of 1999. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Product Description: The stories in this prizewinning debut collection encompass train wrecks, circus acts, river journeys, transspecies transmogrification, and growing up and growing old around the small towns of Michigan. Without glamorizing poverty, Bonnie Jo Campbell details a vision in which shabbiness, beauty, brutality, and wisdom all coexist - and yet the stories can be surprisingly optimistic, often funny...read more

Product Description: Fiction. In this anthology, through a variety of voices and venues, work and the workplace provide setting, metaphor, and meaning -- Bonnie Jo Campbell. In most ways this...is a perfect model of the American short story of work: intimate with the working experience, its work and culture, giving respect and space for the worker to speak his/her grief and joy within a collective sensibility, creating a form that exposes the effects of oppression and how character can be molded in resistance...read more