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From the writer of The Aftermath of Forgiveness— "an enchanting, mythological tale"*—ten amazing stories that handle what this means to be always a guy If they find themselves strolling the rich farmland of south Florida, steering vans through the suffocating sprawl of Houston, or switching records into loose-leaf within the generators only west of the Sabine River, the males of those stories find themselves beset by the insufficiencies of the own ingrained ideas of member. Like Richard Russo, Bruce Machart includes a serious understanding of the male mind and something special for promoting the violence and absurdity of everyday life with empathy and laughter. Alternatively rich with lyricism and starkly honest, these tales arise from in the strongly scrutinized daily of facilities, houses, hospitals, and refineries to discover what this means to be always a guy in the surge of the new century. What this means to be always a guy who can’t protect his partner from assault, or protect his kids from sad mishaps, or protect himself from heartbreak and damage.