recommended by my aunt during a discussion of Richard Ford. purchased one day in june, while nursing myself back from the flu with christian kiefer and my wife at a bookstore in the sacramento valley suburbia.

driving through the brown summer hills, i search for a book about my beloved california to read in canada. in cody’s books on telegraph, this offered itself to me, and i gave in.

any author mentioned by Ben Jahn, falls into the category of things i must read. brilliant in its quiet humanness so far.

after reading winter, and of course noting that his fiction is compared to both raymond carver and hemingway, i bought this book of three shorts at strand in new york.

after reading a collection of short fiction, i simply wanted more. bought this at the strand in new york on a cold february day. the day we left to drive home through a blizzard.

Independence Day was a great book. I devoured and simply must read this, as it is the prequel. A dazzling writer of such amazing clarity, Independence Day burrowed deep into the American psyche and pulled out its entrails…I can’t wait to read more of the main character Frank Bascombe~