Long Time Ago Good

This story collection--a finalist for the annual first fiction award presented by the Texas Institute of Letters--explores Austin Texas a city famous for music football and drunken fun frolics-- and famous too for traffic jams anomie and dislocation. In Long Time Ago Good Lowell Mick White imaginatively recreates this city this region. Here is a folksy reporter covering a chitlins cook-off a ragged cab driver fighting for his life a lonely jewelrymaker focusing too much on the past--a high tech worker losing her job a bureaucrat looking for something more. These stories are populated by depressed men angry women frustrated dogs and fearful cats--filled with heat waves and heartbreaks thunderstorms and belly-laughs: with all that is modern Texas-- and America....