Book description
Set largely in rural Louisiana, Tim Gautreaux's masterful debut story collection follows men and women whose ordinary lives reach a point of rupture, a moment when convention gives way to crisis and everything changes: A drunken train engineer charges toward disaster, a father borrows and old airplane to chase down…
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1 author picked Same Place, Same Things as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I read this again while I was recovering from major surgery. It felt like I'd come home somehow. Which is weird because I was at home a lot. But Gautreaux's settings and characters are all so familiar, they bring you back to the place inside you where you first discovered what "home" meant. It was great to have this part of my healing process.
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