Landscape with Fragmented Figures: A Novel (Working Lives)
"Jeff Vande Zande's Landscape with Fragmented Figures is about being lost and searching for truth out of longing. On the way you drink cheap beer and     pass through some smoke stacks. You are north of Detroit in a mini-metropolis off the I-75 corridor but not quite to God's country. And you find yourself splattered on an abstract canvas, layered with shallow middle class aspirations and working class failures. Haven't we all been there? It's what  makes us human; it's what grounds us. At some point in life we all face ourselves - that is if we are willing to take risks."  --Lolita Hernandez, author of Autopsy of an Engine"Jeff Vande Zande's new novel is a wonderful contemporary working-class story.  This crafted story is an engaging page-turner filled with keen detailing and vivid style. Landscape with Fragmented Figures is the real deal--an intense story about real people involved in day-to-day life experiences that readers will identify with and relate to their own neighborhoods and Midwest houses, not in New York, LA or Chicago. This is a novel full of working-class heart and soul that will appeal to all readers."--M.L. Liebler, author of Wide Awake in Someone Else's Dream & Director of Springfed Arts: Metro Detroit Writers