By Rose Marie Kinder
ISBN-10: 0472031066
ISBN-13: 9780472031061
ISBN-10: 0472115235
ISBN-13: 9780472115235
---Laura Kasischke, MLFA judge
"I learn A Near-Perfect Gift from begin to finish with no preventing, and, while i ended, came across myself sitting in my darkened place of work, infused with an unforeseen feel of peace."
---Eileen Pollack, MLFA judge
The tales in A Near-Perfect Gift revolve round the usually hardscrabble small-town existence in a single rural village. like several different neighborhood inhabited through the human race, it is a position the place the banal and the unbelievable coalesce, a spot with its proportion of universal tragedies and unusual madmen: a few howl on the moon, whereas others develop into heroes. There are the 2 previous women down the road who can be witches and needs to be exorcised, and the guy who plucks chickens for a dwelling. it really is in the perimeter of this offbeat microcosm of the area that possible small questions---often the sort that kids ask, coming up from a kid's imagined realizing of the way the grownup international works---assume an eerie portent: used to be snake underneath the woodpile? might a pregnant bat climb out of a gap within the flooring? The solutions by no means stop to surprise.
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