The fiction of Bonnie Jo Campbell has been honored with the Pushcart Prize, the AWP Award for Short Fiction, and Southern Reviewâs Eudora Welty Prize. In this stunning collectionâa National Book Award finalistâCampbell paints unapologetically frank portraits of broken souls striving for redemption.
In rural Michigan, the American dream, if it ever existed, lies discarded like so much rusty scrap metal. For the inhabitants of Campbellâs tales, the real truth of life can be found in industrial accidents, soul-deadening labor, and the comfort of five drinks too many. But even amid the despair of meth labs and
empty pocketbooks, Campbellâs characters yearn for something, anything, to raise them above it allâand sometimes, impossibly, they find it.
âReaders ⌠will feel salvaged and transformed by this gutsy bookâs fierce compassion.ââBooklist, starred review