Charles McLeod's fiction has appeared in publications including Conjunctions, DOSSIER, Five Chapters, The Gettysburg Review, The Iowa Review, The Pushcart Prize- Best of the Small Presses, and on Salon; he is also the author of the novel American Weather. A Hoyns Fellow at the University of Virginia, he has also received fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and San Jose State University, where he was a Steinbeck Fellow.
A portrait of America in all its breadth, across regions, classes, races, religions. Charles McLeod knows the whole country through its ill-fitting parts and people. All through this book, there are moments of wild candor and insight that crack the surface of daily life -- Salvatore Scibona, author of The End Charles McLeod's writing is very special - crisp and rhythmical, sometimes almost poetic -- William Leith * Evening Standard * well-researched -- Christena Appleyard * Daily Mail *