Description: "Bonnie Jo Campbell is a master of rural America's postindustrial landscape." --Boston Globe
Brief description: Bonnie Jo Campbell is the author of seven works of fiction, including The Waters, a national bestseller, and American Salvage, finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, she lives outside Kalamazoo, Michigan, with her husband and donkeys.
Review Quotes: Campbell grounds us in such graphic grit, making these lives so bitterly, relentlessly real, we want to reach through the pages and pull them to safety--aware, alas, that many would firmly refuse rescue.-- "San Francisco Chronicle"