Book description
The Thief of Words is filled with desperate runaways, the unhappily married, and the displaced. They often long for happiness but struggle to explain-even to themselves-what that would entail.
The lightly interconnected stories in this riveting collection are split between the Polish American communities of northern Wisconsin and Louisiana, where…
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Split between the faded bars and backrooms of working-class Polish American communities in Wisconsin and Louisiana, Bukoski’s stories hum with quiet desperation and tender regret. His characters are marked by longing, loss, and the quiet heroism of staying put.
This is a love letter to the forgotten corners of America and to the stories we carry with us like sacred burdens.
From Sandra's list on rural noir haunted landscapes grief and resilience.
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