Full name: Beneath the Bonfire: Stories

Author: Nickolas Butler Year: 2014 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Short Stories, Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781250039835 1250039835

Young couples gather to participate in an annual "chainsaw party," cutting down trees for firewood in anticipation of the winter. A group of men spend a weekend hunting for mushrooms in the wilderness where they grew up and where some still find themselves trapped. An aging environmentalist takes out his frustration and anger on a singular, unsuspecting target. One woman helps another get revenge against a man whose crime extends far beyond him to an entire community. Together, the ten stories in this dazzling, surprising collection evoke a landscape that will be instantly recognizable to anyone who has traveled the back roads and blue highways of America, and they completely capture the memorable characters who call it home. Similar books: Stay Up With Me by Tom Barbash My date with Satan by Stacey Richter Middle Men by Jim Gavin Months and Seasons by Christopher Meeks Baby, You're Gonna Be Mine by Kevin Wilson Refresh, Refresh by Benjamin Percy A Kind of Flying by Ron Carlson What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us by Laura van den Berg Sing to It by Amy Hempel You Know You Want This by Kristen Roupenian Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? by Kathleen Collins Bobcat and Other Stories by Rebecca Lee Orange World and Other Stories by Karen Russell The Dreams of Bethany Mellmoth by William Boyd Barbara the Slut by Lauren Holmes The Toughest Indian in the World by Sherman Alexie Birds of America by Lorrie Moore Strange Pilgrims by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau