Shotgun lovesongs

NATIONAL BESTSELLERImpressively original --The New York TimesSparkles in every way A love letter to the open lonely American heartlandxA must-read --PeopleThe kind of book that restores your faith in humanity --Toronto StarWelcome to Little WingIts a place like hundreds of others nothing special really But for four friends--all born and raised in this small Wisconsin town--it is home And now they are men coming into their own or struggling to do soOne of them never left still working the family farm that has been tilled for generations But others felt the need to move on with varying degrees of success One trades commodities another took to the rodeo circuit and one of them even hit it big as a rock star And then theres Beth a woman who has meant something special in each of their livesNow all four are brought together for a wedding Little Wing seems even smaller than before While lifelong bonds are still strong there are stresses--among the friends between husbands and wives There will be heartbreak but there will also be hope healing even heroism as these memorable people learn the true meaning of adult friendship and loveSeldom has the American heartland been so richly and accurately portrayed Though the town may have changed the one thing that hasnt is the beauty of the Wisconsin farmland the lure of which in Nickolas Butlers hands emerges as a vibrant character in the story Shotgun Lovesongs is that rare work of fiction that evokes a specific time and place yet movingly describes the universal human condition It is in short a truly remarkable book--a novel that once read will never be forgotten.