New York Times bestselling author and "oneofAmerica'stop cultural
critics" (Entertainment Weekly) Chuck Klosterman's debut novel
brilliantly captures the charm and dread of small town life--now
available in trade paperback. Somewhere in rural North Dakota,
there is a fictional town called Owl. They don't have cable. They
don't really have pop culture, but they do have grain prices and
alcoholism. People work hard and then they die. But that's not
nearly as awful as it sounds; in fact, sometimes it's perfect.
Mitch Hrlicka lives in Owl. He plays high school football and
worries about his weirdness, or lack thereof. Julia Rabia just
moved to Owl. A history teacher, she gets free booze and falls in
love with a self-loathing bison farmer. Widower and local
conversationalist Horace Jones has resided in Owl for seventy-three
years. They all know each other completely, except that they've
never met. But when a deadly blizzard-- based on an actual storm
that occurred in 1984--hits the area, their lives are derailed in
unex- pected and powerful ways. An unpretentious, darkly comedic
story of how it feels to exist in a community where local mythology
and violent reality are pretty much the same thing, Downtown Owl is
"a satisfying character study and strikes a perfect balance between
the funny and the pro- found" (Publishers Weekly).
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