Once nothing, twice shatter -- The skins -- Iowa Darter -- Hiccups forever -- Breakthrough mailboxes of southern Pennsylvania -- County map (detail) -- Watchperson -- Eternal night at the nature museum, a half-hour downriver from Three Mile Island -- Stay, go -- Spit if you call it fear -- Seven corners, Pennsylvania -- Black sands -- K, -- Cowboy man, major player -- Of a whole body (passing through) -- Midtown -- Where the rubies live -- The idler -- Ms. Badislav's vomit -- Spiritual introduction to the neighborhood.
Summary:
In a contemporary America blemished with loneliness and late-capitalism, there is no end to the fractured places in which these characters find 'home.' In twenty vivid, rowdy, buoyant stories--ranging from one-page flashes to thirty-page odysseys--Barton assembles a collection of unforgettable safe havens perfect for crashing, even if only for a night.
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