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A man down on his luck finds employment as an accountant for a mysterious international businessman.
It is the year 1996. Renee Howell, thirty-nine years old, has moved away from her crazy-making husband and the cult he's been in. Now she is all alone in San Diego except for a few friends. Though she thrives amid the city's bustling urban scene as well as walking and exploring its neighborhoods and beaches, she cannot stop dreaming about moving back to her beloved hometown of Wheaton, Kansas. On this annual trek to Wheaton, Renee intends to somehow come to terms with her past and accept her own decisions and missteps. She hopes that interviewing her mother and aunt about their forty-year long friendship will deliver some answers. But during the interview, she discovers some secrets about he...
"Robert's powers of observation, the way he focuses on apparently minor details that most of us overlook, make this collection of short stories a constant source of delight and surprise. These stories elevate everyday experiences to the level of high literary art. They do likewise with more profound human tragedies that cast an uncompromising light on the terrible things human beings knowingly and unknowingly do to one another." -Dennis M. Clausen, author of Prairie Son Rich with insight into the human condition, Traveling Sitting Still: short stories is a moving collection of short stories from author Robert Judge Woerheide. In an age of increasing anonymity, these hard-edged, uncompromising stories remind us that we are part of a greater whole. Whether it's an injured American GI forced to dig his own grave during World War II, a lonely germ-phobic stuck on a freeway entrance ramp in Los Angeles, or a man headed for divorce who finds solace in a Chiquita banana sticker, Woerheide explores the darker aspects of humanity and our ability to exist within them.
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"Set in rural Minnesota during the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, this powerful memoir, with its unblinking depictions of poverty, natural disasters, and human frailty, tells a story as meaningful today as when it occurred."--Back cover.
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