Brown Dog is a Michigan Indian down on his luck. This collection gathers all the Brown Dog novellas together in one collection.

Jim Harrison is one of this country's most beloved writers, a muscular, brilliantly economic stylist with a salty wisdom. For more than twenty years, he has also been writing some of the best essays on food around, now collected in a volume that caused the Santa Fe New Mexican to exclaim: "To read this book is to come away convinced that Harrison is a flat-out genius - one who devours life with intensity, living it roughly and full-scale, then distills...

Jim Harrison is one of America's most beloved and critically-acclaimed authors on a par with American literary greats like Richard Ford, Anne Tyler, Robert Stone, Russell Banks, and Ann Beattie. His latest collection of novellas, The River Swimmer, is Harrison at his most memorable: a brilliant rendering of two men striving to find their way in the world, written with freshness, abundant wit, and profound humanity. In The Land of Unlikeness, sixty-year-old...

The son of a wealthy family of timber barons struggles to reconcile himself with the damage his family has done to Michigan's Upper Peninsula--a scarring that cuts deeply into the fabric of his own family.

the story and the reminiscences of a born-and-bred Upper Peninsula (Michigan) detective who is forced to retire. His dislocation, loss of identity and self-confidence, and his eventual awareness of how much he loves the UP and the new opportunities and interests that present themselves. The situations and his reactions to them echo Robert B Parker's Jesse Stone and Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander series (If you like The Great Leader, you will love...

Beautiful, fearless, tormented, at 45 Dalva has lived a life of lovers and adventures. Now she returns to the bosom of her family and searches for the son she gave up years before.

A collection of novellas includes the title story, in which an aging writer struggles with his ex and a litter of piglets; "Eggs," in which a woman tries to have a baby after reflecting on her London youth; and a story featuring Detective Sunderson.

In the aftermath of a Chippewa-Finnish man's death from Lou Gehrig's disease, his wife, daughter, and brother-in-law read the family history he has left behind, study his philosophies about death, and struggle to redeem their own pasts.

A collection of novellas offers an insightful take on life in America, from the Michigan Indian who struggles to raise a family with limited resources to the satirical "Republican Wives."

A trio of novellas. In "Julip" a woman attempts to free a brother who has been jailed for shooting her three lovers. In "The Beige Dolorosa" a professor is excommunicated from academia for not being politically correct.