Q Road -- Bonnie Jo Campbell

<b>Combining the modern-farm-life realities of Jane Smiley's <i>A Thousand Acres</i> with the quirky humor and eccentric characters of Carolyn Chute's<i> The Beans of Egypt, Maine, Q Road</i> is a charming debut from Bonnie Jo Campbell.</b> <p/>Greenland Township, Michigan: On the same acres where farmers once displaced Potawatomi Indians, suburban developers now supplant farmers and prefab homes spring up in last year's cornfields. All along Q Road--or "Queer Road," as the locals call it--the old, rural life collides weirdly with the new. <p/>With a cast of lovingly rendered eccentrics and a powerful sense of place, <i>Q Road </i>is a lively tale of nature and human desire that alters the landscape of contemporary fiction.<br><br><b>Author:</b> Bonnie Jo Campbell<br><b>Publisher:</b> Scribner Book Company<br><b>Published:</b> 08/19/2003<br><b>Pages:</b> 288<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.55lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.70d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780743203661<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br><b>Bonnie Jo Campbell</b> has won a Pushcart Prize, as well as the Associated Writing Programs Award in short fiction for her story collection, <i>Women and Other Animals.</i> She lives a few miles from where she was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan.</p>