Title: Loving Wanda Beaver
First published: 1995
Description: In a world that has quietly and unexpectedly gone tilt, the delightful, engaging characters in these stories and novella find their own way to regain equilibrium. A processing clerk at the Institute for the Study of American Sexual Appetite, Library of Desire section, longs for the attentions of a summer corn detasseler in "Loving Wanda Beaver," the irresistible and unpredictable title story that has also been selected for Prize Stories 1995: The O. Henry Awards.

In the novella "Almost Home," Decker and his dog have fled the city for a rural life that is everything but tranquil as he encounters some very strange neighbors, a forest fire, a runaway bear, and other seemingly inexplicable acts of violence and acceptance.
Subjects: American Short stories, Fiction, Fiction, short stories (single author)
LC classification: PS3552.A399 L68 1995