A Simplified Map of the Real World

De: Stevan Allred

Narrado por: Stevan Allred

Fifteen linked stories chart a true course through the lives of families, farmers, loggers, former classmates, and the occasional stripper. In the richly imagined town of Renata, Oregon, a man watches his neighbor's big-screen TV through binoculars, an errant son paints himself silver, mysterious electrical humming emanates from an enormous barn.

In A Simplified Map of the Real World, intimate boundaries are loosened by history - and high above the strife and the hope and the often hilarious, geese seek the perfect tailwind. Stevan Allred's stunning debut deftly navigates the stubborn geography of the human heart.

©2018 Forest Avenue Press (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Heart and Soul and Original!

A great author and also a very good narrator, Stevan Allred's (I swear no relation to me!) collection of stories about Renata-a fictional small town in Oregon-is so varied and original that it is the best collection I have read in over a year. His characters cover the full spectrum of human idiosyncrasies--from the ultra uncool, to rage filled, jealous, breaking down , loyal, unloyal, successful, homeless--and on... I can't wait to hear more from this man in the future!