Dennis M. Clausen's Prairie Son (1999), recipient of the 1997 First Series Award for Creative Nonfiction, explored his father Lloyd Clausen's early life after a farm family adopted him in 1922 to be a worker and not a son. Prairie Son was nominated for several national literary awards and was voted one of the five best books published in 1999 by a University of Minnesota graduate. The St. Paul Pioneer Press wrote, "Have you ever read a book so good you don't want it to end? Prairie Son will make you feel that way." Publisher's Weekly described Prairie Son as "an archetypal account of...

Joel Hampton ist ein vielversprechender junger Anwalt, ein glücklich verheirateter Mann und Familienvater - bis die entsetzlichen Alpträume beginnen...