"Laura Kroghoff\'s stories have the lyrical exuberance of a Grace Paley in their bones." Christopher Grimes, author of The Pornographers and Public Works: Short Fiction and a Novella Six stories span a century of rural American women.
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Marriages occur in the 1930s for lack of other opportunities; a young girl dances to Thriller for her friend\'s older brother; a pastor remembers her childhood spent fantasizing that she is the prophet John the Baptist. "Laura Kroghoff\'s stories have the lyrical exuberance of a Grace Paley in their bones." Christopher Grimes, author of The Pornographers and Public Works: Short Fiction and a Novella Six stories span a century of rural American women