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In one of our most acclaimed writers: an accumulation of stories established primarily in the American West, created using the terse lyricism, cinematic depth, and wry wit which have become Mike Shepard’s trademarks. A guy travelling down Highway 90 West gets stuck alone immediately in the Cracker Barrel restaurant, where he's tormented by an endless cycle of Shania Twain tracks. A roaming actor returns to his neighborhood and incurs a classic friend, who recounts their teen-age times of purchasing Benzedrine vehicles, robbing, and sleeping with whores in Tijuana. A Minnesota couple and their kids, touring south for holiday, are so swept up in the dramas of family life they remain ignorant to the wonder of the Yucatan peninsula. Spectacular, creative, and effective, these tales are Shepard at his flinty-eyed, unwavering greatest.