Same Place Same Things: Stories

Set largely in rural Louisiana Tim Gautreauxs masterful debut story collection follows men and women whose ordinary lives reach a point of rupture a moment when convention gives way to crisis and everything changes: A drunken train engineer charges toward disaster a father borrows and old airplane to chase down his daughters kidnapper a young man falls in love with a voice on the radio. Written with humor suspense and a powerful affection for humanity in all its wild forms Same Place Same Things is the first great work by a master of the form.