RaveThe Riverfront TimesAs weird and wrenching and ‘out there’ as they may seem, [Woods’] stories also scream real-life Midwest … Woods brings an often invisible landscape into rare focus. It's a book that feels especially resonant given the current cultural moment in America. While it's a work of fiction, and one that even ventures into fantasy, the people at its center are the working class and the rural poor. Often dismissed or even despised, they're shown here in their full complexity over the course of 221 vivid pages.
