In "The 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 in "The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas" capture the oddity, poetry, and dignity of everyday life.