Banjo Grease

The author of Brother Carnival and The World’s Smallest Bible examines small-town life in this collection of sixteen stories. There is an inexplicable gravity in a small town. It can be read and enjoyed like a favorite book for most of its inhabitants. Comforting are its streets and institutions, its wedding and obituary announcements.  Banjo Grease  is about life and death in a mill town where at each epiphany and rite of passage, the narrator yields a ration of innocence. Characters