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Milkweed Editions
September 2008
On Sale: September 1, 2008
352 pages
ISBN: 1571310592
EAN: 9781571310590
Hardcover
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Fiction
David Rhodes's long-awaited new novel turns an unblinking
eye on an array of eccentric characters and situations. The
setting is Words, Wisconsin, an anonymous town of only a
few hundred people. But under its sleepy surface, life
rages. Cora and Graham guard their dairy farm, and family,
from the wicked schemes of their milk co-op. Lifelong
paraplegic Olivia suddenly starts to walk, only to find
herself crippled by her fury toward her sister and
caretaker, Violet. Recently retired Rusty finds a cougar
living in his haymow, dredging up haunting childhood
memories. Winifred becomes pastor of the Friends church and
stumbles on enlightenment in a very unlikely place. And
Julia Montgomery, both private and gregarious, instigates a
series of events that threatens the town's solitude and
doggedly suspicious ways. Driftless finds the author's
powers undiminished in this unforgettable story that evokes
a small-town America previously unmapped, and the damaged
denizens who must make their way through it.
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