The Cage Keeper And Other Stories
A vigilant young man working in a halfway house finds himself unable to defend against the rage of one of the inmates in the title story. In "White Trees, Hammer Moon," a man soon to leave home for prison finds himself as unprepared for a family camping trip in the mountains of New Hampshire as he has been for most things in his life. With an incisive ability to inhabit the lives of his characters, Dubus travels deep into the heart of the elusive American dream.