num_pages: 352
description: "Powerful . . . Fiction of a very high order . . . Frederick Busch at his best."-- Los Angeles Times Book Review"[These] provocative tales center around relationships gone awry, families grappling with loss, and lonely men and women struggling with remnants of love . . . . What Busch ultimately serves is a heady and rewarding brew made up of people as real as ourselves, groping for and sometimes even discovering the comforts of love."-- USA Today"Memorable . . . [The] stories leap off the page with astonishing resilience and vigor. . . . Busch is a chronicler of domestic manners whose insights into family hierarchies transcend the factual to attain poetry and truth."-- The Boston Globe
language: English
title: Children in the Woods
titlecomplete: Children in the Woods
genres: Fiction
ratings_count: 23
awards: awardedAt: 788947200000
name: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
publisher: Ballantine Books