The strangeness of life and death play out in a fictional American small town Lyla Mae Muncy meets her first love at Falls Creek Baptist Assembly Summer Bible Church Camp--and regrets it on their awkward first date.
From the fears and discoveries of childhood, through the revelations of adolescence, into the troubled years of adulthood and decline into old age and death, Rilla Askew uncannily makes each of her characters\' experiences our own..
Experience, memory, and town-consciousness bind this collection of ten stories spanning twenty-five years in fictitious Cedar, Oklahoma.
In a tender moment, an old man speaks from beyond the grave about his wife\'s final goodbye at his funeral.
After years of being nagged about lumpy gravy, abused wife Lois pulls out a shotgun to wrap up breakfast her way.
The strangeness of life and death play out in a fictional American small town Lyla Mae Muncy meets her first love at Falls Creek Baptist Assembly Summer Bible Church Camp--and regrets it on their awkward first date
