23 stories set in the Northwest that begin in the '50s and travel to the present, this book by the teacher/poet/actor/writer Bob McAllister explores the rituals of growing up and down. Different tenses and the tension between events and understanding seen through the lens of time. In the style of great American short story writers like Norman Maclean, Richard Ford and Raymond Carver these stories speak to a place and time that is no longer and yet always with us...a land of strange recognition.