Driftless National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (2015) ‘What I learned is that

‘What I learned is that we are infinitely more complex and wondrous

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Driftless National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (2015) ‘What I learned is thatA fast moving story about small town life with characters that seem to have walked off the pages of Edgar Lee Masterss Spoon River Anthology. The Wall Street Journal The few hundred souls who inhabit Words, Wisconsin, are an extraordinary cast of characters. The middle aged couple who zealously guards their farm from a scheming milk cooperative. The lifelong invalid, crippled by conflicting emotions about her sister. A cantankerous retiree, haunted by