Julip
by Jim Harrison | 
The King in the Tree
by Steven Millhauser | 
The Tokyo-Montana Express
by Richard Brautigan | 
Epiphany
by Ferrol Sams | 
Local Girls
by Alice Hoffman | 
I Cannot Get You Close Enough
by Ellen Gilchrist |
The Summer He Didn't Die
by Jim Harrison | 
The Hunters
by Claire Messud |
The Heart is Deceitful Above all Things
by J. T. LeRoy | 
Another Marvelous Thing
by Laurie Colwin | 
Trailerpark
by Russell Banks |
The Reservoir Tapes
by Jon McGregor | 
The Practical Heart
by Allan Gurganus | 
Mary and O'Neil
by Justin Cronin | 
Kafka Americana
by Jonathan Lethem | 
Farewell, I'm Bound to Leave You
by Fred Chappell | 
Sixty Stories
by Donald Barthelme | 
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
by David Foster Wallace | 
An Actor's Life
by Duncan Whitehead | 
Selected Stories
by Alice Munro |
Across the odd contours of the American landscape-Jim Harrison's country--its natives search for that which isn't quite irretrievably lost, for the incandescent beneath the ordinary. An ex-Bible student with raucously asocial tendencies rescues the miraculously preserved body of an Indian chief from the frigid depths of Lake Superior, in a caper that nets a wildly unexpected bounty; a band of sixties radicals, now approaching middle-age, reunites to free an old comrade from a Mexican jail and rewrite their common history; a fifty-year-old suburban housewife flees quietly from her abusive businessman husband at a highway rest stop, climbs a fence, and explores the bittersweet pageant of the preceding years within the sanctuary of an Iowa cornfield. "Brown Dog"