On a dusty spring morning in the middle of the Great Depression, a hungry drifter named Chester dropped from a boxcar and ran smack into the Wilson family, who hired him to slop their hogs and proceeded to turn him into their private buffoon. Chester was full of big ideas about his dignity, and before long he ached with love for the Wilson s pretty young cousin, Miss Lindy. But the family had no intention of letting him marry among them; they figured God had put this crazy-faced, bedraggled clown on earth for their amusement, and every time he tried to rise they stuck a thumb in his eye. This...
On a dusty spring morning in the middle of the Great Depression, a hungry drifter named Chester dropped from a boxcar and ran smack into the Wilson fa...
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. As the title suggests, many of the stories in"Fishing for Ghosts"have to do with remembrance and loss, and as Richard Brown points out in the book s foreword, it will...
Warm, gentle, funny, sometimes sad, these twelve stories weave common themes into a variety of patterns, each distinctive and yet related to the rest....
