Tornado Alley

''Tornado Alley is the kind of book one takes to the beach or to the mountains for the purpose of total immersion. Its world is painstakingly needlepointed in every detail, a real service to the reader who likes to revisit sometimes overly familiar territory. . . . There are brilliant stretches of writing as well as truly touching glimpses of deeply hurt but paradoxically alive people." Andrei Codrescu, The New York Times.