American Salvage

By Bonnie Jo Campbell
(Wayne State University Press, Paperback, 9780814334126, 170pp.)

Publication Date: April 2009

Other Editions of This Title: Paperback (December 2009), Hardcover (December 2009)

Categories: Short Stories (single author)

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In the second installment of our book series, "Back Story," Steve Inskeep talks with author Bonnie Jo Campbell. Her latest book, American Salvage, is a short story collection that explores the lives of people at the bottom of American society. More at NPR.org

In her new short-story collection, American Salvage, Bonnie Jo Campbell looks at working-class life in Michigan. Reviewer Alan Cheuse says both roughness and beauty can be found in Campbell's stories about cold, meth-drenched small towns. More at NPR.org