After the collapse of the old world-the pandemics, the environmental disasters, the end of oil, the ensuing chaos-people are pursuing a simpler and sometimes happier existence. In Union Grove, New York, the townspeople are preparing for Christmas... the perfect time for a long-lost member of the community to return. Robert Earle's son, Daniel, has come home after two years exploring what is left of the United States. He brings news of three new...

"An epic novel that spans thirty years in the lives of a farm family in Iowa, telling a parallel story of the changes taking place in America from 1920 through the early 1950s"--Provided by publisher.

"Here are eighteen stories of astonishing range and precision. A housewife drinks alone in her Connecticut living room. A guillotine glimmers above a sleepy town green. A pre-recorded customer service message sends a caller into a reverie of unspeakable yearning. With the deft touch and funhouse-mirror perspectives for which he has won countless admirers, Steven Millhauser gives us the towns, marriages, and families of a quintessential American lifestyle...