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Population 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Timeby Michael Perry
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:After a twelve-year absence, a real-life prodigal son returns to his hometown — New Auburn, Wisconsin, population: 485 — and joins the volunteer fire and rescue department. In a place where men post claims of manhood on their truck bumpers, where the local vigilante is a farmer's wife armed with a pistol and a Bible, and where the most senior firefighter is a cross-eyed butcher with one kidney and two ex-wives (both of whom work at the only gas station in town), writer Michael Perry sets out "to meet my neighbors at the invitation of the fire siren." The emergencies are real, the settings are surreal, and with each foray into the boondocks, we piece together the history of a people and a place. By turns fiery and funny, violent and gentle, Population: 485 is the true account of a search for rootedness in a place from the past. Review:"Quietly devastating...intimate and disarming and lovely."
Esquire Review: "Often funny, sometimes heartbreaking, but always full of life, characters and the tangled web of small-town history, daily drama, and strain of occasional weirdness that make country living such a challenge and an adventure....A joy of a book."
Michael Korda, author of Country Matters Synopsis:Swells with unadorned heroism. He' s the real thing . Synopsis:“ Swells with unadorned heroism. He’ s the real thing .” About the AuthorMichael Perry was raised on a small dairy farm near New Auburn, Wisconsin, and put himself through nursing school working as a cowboy in Wyoming. As of this writing, he is the only member of the New Auburn Area Fire Department to have missed the monthly meeting because of a poetry reading. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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