Warm, gentle, funny, sometimes sad, these twelve stories weave common themes into a variety of patterns, each distinctive and yet related to the rest. The bonds between generations and the friction those bonds create, the tensions between a character's country past and city present, are at once archetypically American and specific to each story's particular reality. This hardback book has a dust jacket and 202 pages. The author is a professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno.