artificial plants & flowers
same place same things
set largely in rural louisiana tim gautreauxs masterful debut story collection follows men and women whose ordinary lives reach a point of rupture a moment when convention gives way to crisis and everything changes a drunken train engineer charges toward disaster a father borrows and old airplane to chase down his daughters kidnapper a young man falls in love with a voice on the radio . written with humor suspense and a powerful affection for humanity in all its wild forms same place same things is the first great work by a master of the form . br