Population
485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time
By Michael Perry
(Harper Perennial, Paperback, 9780060958077, 256pp.)
Publication Date: October 2003
Other Editions of This Title: Hardcover (October 2002)
Categories: Medical - General, Personal Memoirs, Special Interest - Adventure
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Unable to polka or repair his own pickup, his farm-boy hands gone soft after years of writing, Mike figures the best way to regain his credibility is to join the volunteer fire department. Against a backdrop of fires and tangled wrecks, bar fights and smelt feeds, he tells a frequently comic tale leavened with moments of heartbreaking delicacy and searing tragedy.











