Stygo Author:Laura Hendrie Winner 1995 American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Award. Winner 1995 Mountains and Plains Regional Book Award Finalist 1995 PEN/Hemingway Foundation First Fiction Award Stygo is the quintessential western town - a place where people work hard for very little and learn to survive on dreams. Hendrie brings these dreams to life in a ha... more »unting series of interlocked stories, including the tale of Tom Go, who suddenly finds his fantasy of moving to Alaska within reach; of Beca, struggling to free her older brother from the grip of their father's expectations; of Frank, who knows that love is a chimera often glimpsed but seldom captured; and of other inhabitants, adults and children alike, who bear witness to love and despair and learn to take what they can from life.« less
Love these stories! Hard hitting, insightful, down and dirty. Stories of the people of Stygo...blue collar western town. Starkly beautiful writing...reminds me a bit of Annie Proulx.