Description Beauty and terror collide in Doug Lawson\'s Bigfoots in Paradise, a wild new collection of stories set largely in and around Santa Cruz, California and the surrounding mountains. - In a. - In House on Bear Mountain, a woman inherits a vacation house in the Sierras from her dead husband, only to find her husband\'s family isn\'t quite ready to let it go yet. - In The Night Witches, a face out of her counter-cultural past causes a Santa Cruz mother to re-evaluate everything she\'s come to call her life. - In Catch the Air, a blimp crashes into the ocean as a start-up company fails and a father and son struggle with the father\'s famous, failing mind.
They hunt mushrooms up and down the mountains as the mountains build up to the great quake, not realizing the danger they\'re all in from the quake, and from each other. - In The Mushroom Hunter, a young man goes to live with his once-violent childhood friend, the man\'s girlfriend and her son, just before the massive Loma Prieta earthquake strikes.
His characters are awkward, ungainly, and great at hiding and they shamble through the beautiful wilderness of their lives, searching for meaning, searching for themselves.
Doug\'s prize-winning prose is as nimble and touching as it is lyric, and he plunges headlong into this astonishing country at a fine-tuned, white-knuckled pace that will leave you both gasping for breath and holding your heart in your hands.
Blimps crash, mushrooms dream, dogfights erupt, trustafarians pontificate while pneumatic ostriches walk the streets and sons and fathers and lovers try desperately to find some way to connect with the past, with themselves, before it\'s too late.
Earthquakes rumble, meth labs explode, helicopters search overhead for drug farms while wildfires ravage the hillsides.
It\'s a land tucked between Silicon Valley and the Pacific Ocean, one that\'s populated by aging hippies and venture capitalist sharks, pot farmers and surfers, child prodigies and roaming herds of wild boar.
Description Beauty and terror collide in Doug Lawson\'s Bigfoots in Paradise, a wild new collection of stories set largely in and around Santa Cruz, California and the surrounding mountains
