B. J. Hollars s debut short story collection offers ten
thematically linked tales, all of which are out to subvert
conventional notions of the midwestern coming-of-age story. The
stories feature an assemblage of Bigfoot believers, Civil War
reenactors, misidentified Eskimos, and grief-stricken clowns, among
other outcasts incapable of finding a place in their worlds. In
these marvelous stories, we can join a family on a very
21st-century trip along the Oregon Trail, watch as a boy builds a
brother from a vacuum cleaner, follow a sandlot baseball team as it
struggles to overcome an invasion by its Native American neighbors,
and experience how a high school basketball squad takes to
Sasquatch roaming its court. This genre-bending collection charts a
bizarre pathway through the thickets of life on the road to
adulthood. Pushing the limits of realism, these stories capture the
peculiar rites of passage of growing up midwestern."
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