Publisher's Synopsis
Warren Read's rich, evocative voice stirs up images of pathos, desperation and biting humor in the lives of everyday people confronting not-so-everyday situations. A frightened woman listens for the inevitable rattle of gunfire to come from her upstairs bedroom. A grieving father instructs his son in the finer techniques of grave digging. A pair of sisters takes on the reluctant task of planting a memorial tree for their late foster mother. A Sunday school escapee, a dying farmer, a mother struggling to grasp the explanation for the stubbornness of her own brain-these are the stories whose roots are deep in the human experience.
