This book is an evocative and often riotous hook and weave telling of the lives of the woeful and wondrous inhabitants of Indiahoma, Oklahoma, a small town "halfway between gone and went."
In the first of ten stories, "Ifs and Buts, Candy and Nuts," the reader meets Lucas Moody, the former town mayor and Korean War veteran in his sixties, who sees no reason to go on living. The tale follows Lucas through his failed suicide attempt which leads him to a house of tragedy and miracle. Forced to abandon his own troubles in a frantic attempt to save a dying family, Lucas saves himself.
