Dan Gerber
Dan Gerber was born and grew up in western Michigan and received
his bachelor's degree from Michigan State University in 1962. He has
worked as a corporate executive, an automobile dealer, a profe...
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Grass Fires
Stories by Dan Gerber
Dan Gerber
The varied inhabitants of Brainard, Michigan, examine their lives
and losses in very distinct, matter-of-fact voices. A heart attack
victim crashes into his brother-in-law’s funeral parlor in the title
story; the deaf-mute of “Conversation” begins his tale with the
simple sentence, “I don’t think I’ve really had a conversation with
anyone since my father died.”
Dan Gerber’s characters are capable of extraordinary compassion and
everyday cruelty, and reveal themselves in an unnerving series of
layers.
“The finely drawn sketches of small-town life reveal
a vivid place inhabited by fleshed-out protagonists
who face mundane and meaningful times.”
—Choice magazine
“This eloquent, artful collection is well worth
searching for.”
—The Detroit News
World Rights
185 pp., 6.00" x 9.00", 2003
Paper, $19.95,
0-87013-682-8
978-0-87013-682-5
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