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Bear County, Michigan

John Counts
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Product details

  • ISBN 9780810148017
  • Weight: 454g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 15 Feb 2025
  • Publisher: Northwestern University Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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Description
Following desperate characters in desperate circumstances in the rural Midwest

In these colorful, darkly comic stories, veteran journalist and crime reporter John Counts takes readers to an often-ignored part of the country: a fictional Great Lakes coastal town in northern Michigan defined by beauty and bleakness. The cast of characters in these connected stories ranges from addicts to backwoods misfits to ruined lumber families, all bound together by their desire to obtain something just out of reach. Big Frank breaks out of a rehab facility trying to outrun grief. The women in the village of Brotherhood grapple with sterility resulting from an environmental calamity. A local politician must convince her mother to leave a nudist colony. And in the final, sweeping story, a splinter group from the local tribe attempts to reclaim its ancestral land by force. The people of Bear County and their predicaments encompass the wildly original and yet totally ordinary truths about American life off the beaten track.
About John Counts
John Counts is an award-winning journalist who has published fiction in the Chicago Reader and Printers Row. A Michigan native, he grew up trout fishing in the Northwoods and playing in punk bands. He lives in Whitmore Lake with his family and works as an editor at MLive.com.

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