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The bestselling author of The Soul of a New Machine , House , and Among Schoolchildren now shows us what life is like in small-town America today. Sanford J. Unger ...Kidder does not claim to have looked for anything representative of a grand phenomenon....[H]e has sought merely to tell a good story in a way that teaches us something. That he has done. — WQ: The Wilson Quarterly
ForewordxiiiPART I 1. Townie3 2. The Morning Polka26 3. A Restraining Order45Part II 4. A Moral Place67 5. Hands80 6. Hunting98 7. Sanctuary117 8. Too Cold for Crime132Part III 9. Tearless, Eager and Longing Eyes157 10. Plain Miss Smith168 11. Total, Mindless Joy173 12. I Could Do This Stuff189 13. The Witness List197Part IV 14. Public Works209 15. Meaning Well216 16. The Caretaker231 17. The Application242 18. The Trial249 19. Milton269Part V 20. The Farewell Sermon291 21. Willoughby Gap295 22. Karma305 23. Free at Last312 24. The Judge331Acknowledgments and Bibliography339
