Bad Dirt
Author: Annie Proulx
Proulx country.Wide-open, weird and very beautiful…It’s an isolated expanse of wasters and dreamers, whose inhabitants say there’s no place like home – but long for icebergs and imported olives. Where men grow beards competitively and where Bible classes wonder ‘What Kind of Furniture Would Jesus Pick?’. A place populated by characters like Cheri Wham, who married the sc….Read More
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