Monday's Pick!

Short story writing is a difficult art but Annie Proulx's latest collection of nine Wyoming stories, Fine Just the Way It Is establishes just how deep her storytelling skills are. Her imagination and unique voice portray a landscape and characters like no other.

The understory or background that runs throughout is the voice of the Devil, Old Scratch himself, who appears in two stories, as he diabolically delights in manipulating the lives of the people in the Upper World in a series of fiendish plots that rain terror and death on the innocent.

The stories run the gamut from the historical ranching era in the Old West with its hardships and heartaches to the present day where conflicts in a world faraway tear apart the lives of Western families of the 21st century. The characters are compelling and sympathetically portrayed. You will laugh out loud in disbelief at some of the things these men and women say and do as you marvel at their tenacity and courage. These stories made me sit back in horror, wonder and awe.

Only Annie Proulx, National Book and Pulitzer Prize Winner, who wrote The Shipping News and Brokeback Mountain, can depict the lives of this world so eloquently. Read the stories and revel in the embrace of a world class story teller. She truly is in a league all her own.

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