Amity

"This is a collection of short stories by well-known Quaker writer Brent Bill. All of them are set in the Midwest of the United States, a region known for its honest, hardworking, plain-speaking, religious people who are as complex and as thoughtful as the most urbane of city dwellers. The stories are of 1930's housewives, modern day priests, 1960s kids, and more - and the varieties and vagaries of their lives' trials, triumphs, failings, joys, sorrows, and surviving. And the beauty and mystery of it all"--