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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Bratwurst Haven: Stories

Bratwurst Haven: Stories

King, Rachel

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General FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $19.99

ISBN10: 1952271495
ISBN13: 9781952271496
Publisher: West Virginia Univ Pr
Published: Nov 1 2022
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.60
Language: English
Linked stories trace the vocational and emotional bargains made by workers at a Colorado sausage factory.

It's almost a decade after the Great Recession, and in Colorado, St. Anthony Sausage has not recovered. Neither have its employees: a laid-off railway engineer, an exiled computer whiz, a young woman estranged from her infant daughter, an older man with cancer who lacks health care. As these low-wage workers interact under the supervision of the factory's owner and his quietly rebellious daughter, they come to understand that in America's postindustrial landscape, although they may help or comfort each other, they also have to do what's best for themselves.

Over the course of these twelve interrelated stories, Rachel King gives life to diverse, complex, and authentic characters who are linked through the sausage factory and through their daily lives in a vividly rendered small town in Boulder County. The internal and external struggles of Bratwurst Haven's population are immediately and intimately relatable and resonant: these people seek answers within the world they inhabit while questioning what it means to want more from their lives.

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