Washoe County Library System

"One young father reconciles his parental responsibilities with hatemongers living down the block, another struggles with his own parents' deaths. Fabulist political tales offer resistance, whether in acts of civil or psychic disobedience. Finally, in a novella set on the famously clear California alpine lake, a composite character --- ordinary, compromised failure or unlikely hero - responds to the demand that he act on behalf of his own redemption...