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Inside a triumphant go back to the character types that launched his career two decades previously, Tom Drury travels back to Grouse County, the environment of his landmark debut, The End of Vandalism. Drury's depictions of the stark beauty of the Midwest and the futility of American wanderlust have attained him evaluations to Raymond Carver, Sherwood Anderson, and Paul Auster. When 14-year-old Micah Darling travels to LA to reunite with the mom who deserted him seven years ago, he discovers himself out of his league in a land of wonderful freedom. He will new drugs with new people, comes deeply in love with an enchanting but troubled equestrienne called Charlotte, and gets thrown out of college over the actions of a golf club called the brand new Luddites. Back in the Midwest, an ethereal young female comes to Natural stone City on the mission that will unsettle the lives of everyone she meets - including Micah's half-sister, Lyris, who still fights anxieties of abandonment after a childhood in foster good care, and Micah's father, Tiny, a petty thief. An investigation in to the stranger's identity uncovers a darkly disturbed life, as parallel narratives of the comic and tragic, the mysterious and the each day, unfold in both country and the town. A family portrait of two disparate neighborhoods united by the restlessness and needy hope of their residents, Drury's haunted souls, adrift between promises and circumstance, show our infinite capacity to "get in and out of trouble in unpredicted ways" and still find a semblance of serenity at the end.
