The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas: Stories [Paperback]

InThe Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas,Davy Rothbart's stories grow out of road trips and small towns and are populated by questionable heroes and gold-hearted thugs.Full of loneliness and hope, heartbreak and humor, Rothbart's tales blaze their way from midwestern farm fields to state prisons and border-town brothels.
Much like the lost, tossed, and forgotten items Rothbart collected in his acclaimed book,Found,the stories inThe Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansascapture the oddity, poetry, and dignity of everyday life.Davy Rothbartis the author of the national bestsellerFound, and creator of the magazine of the same name. A contributor to public radio'sThis American Life, he is also the author of the story collectionThe Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Davy writes with his whole heart. These stories are crushing.
-- Arthur Miller It's always exciting to discover a talented new writer. Davy Rothbart writes with such energy, wit, and heart.
-- Judy BlumeDavy Rothbart is a prodigiously talented young writer, and I would happily read anything he writes. His stories are full of a strange nervous energy in which wisdom is also, somehow, always visible.
-- Charles Baxter, author ofThe Feast of Love and Saul and Patsy I believe in Davy. He is a force to be reckoned with.
-- Ira Glass, host of public radio'sThis American Life