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Falling under the spell of these short stories by O. Henry Award winning author Thomas Fox Averill, a reader might well wonder: What in the world is ordinary? If there really are just plain folks anywhere at all, they d surely be in the solid Midwestern Kansas of Averill s fiction. And yet the ordinary people we meet in these stories lead us into one startling encounter after another with the mystery, the magic, and, yes, the transcendence that even the most mundane life secretly holds.In writing that has been called lyrical (New York Times), compelling (Kansas City Star), and...

"To understand why people say 'Dear old Kansas " is to understand that Kansas is no mere geographical expression, but a 'state of mind, ' a religion, and a philosophy in one," writes historian Carl Becker in the classic 1910 essay that leads off this volume. Like Becker, the twelve other essayists and four poets try to map the spiritual topography of Kansas and explain why this particular patch of prairie is so dear. They share the conviction that Kansas represents something powerful, something significant, something noteworthy.

The seventeen selections are put into perspective by Thomas...