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A collection of short essays in which the author meditates on natural disasters and fatherhood.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hollars, B. J. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2016]
Edition:Break away book club edition.
Series:Break away books.
Subjects:
Death.
Disasters.
Fatherhood.
Fear.
Hollars, B. J. > Anecdotes.
Authors, American > 21st century > Biography > Anecdotes.
Essays.
Table of Contents:
  • Goodbye, Tuscaloosa
  • A test of the emergency alert system
  • Epistle to an embryo
  • To the good people of Joplin
  • Fifty ways of looking at tornadoes
  • The longest wait
  • The girl in the surf
  • Dispatches from drownings
  • Buckethead
  • The changing
  • Death by refrigerator
  • Fabricating fear
  • Fort Wayne is still seventh on Hitler's list
  • The year of the great forgetting
  • Hirofukushima
  • Punch line
  • Bedtime stories.