Driftless
By: David Rhodes.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 429
ISBN-13: 9781571310590
Subjects: City and town life -- Fiction; Wisconsin -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Home to a few hundred people yet absent from state maps, Words, Wisconsin, comes richly to life by way of an extraordinary cast of characters. Among them, a middle-aged couple guards the family farm from the mendacious schemes of their milk cooperative; a life-long invalid finds herself crippled by her resentment of and affection for her sister; a woman of conflicting impulses and pastor of the local Friends church stumbles upon an enlightenment she never expected; a cantankerous retiree discovers a cougar living in his haymow, haunting him like a childhood memory; and a former drifter forever alters the ties that bind a community together.