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Banjo Grease: Selected Stories

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Dennis Must displays an amazing richness of image of the poor and working class. He creates stories that embrace you and take you, altogether, to another time and place. He breathes unpredictable life into his characters and brilliantly constructs their rural roots. Through the sadness and irony there is poignancy. There we find humanity.

From the opening line of the first story, "Escape," to the closing of "Oh Josephine," Dennis Must links together stories of the ordinary and not so ordinary among us, and does so in a manner that not only engages the reader, but creates a camaraderie between his delightfully eccentric characters and his audience.

This line, from "The Scar," was worth the entire book: "But this massive sliding soul was a sweetness at the edge of sour." A very satisfying line that, among countless others.

Along the journey, Must makes us laugh, empathize, gape in comic horror, and most important, keep reading.