Know Your Beholder the dwarves

Know Your Beholder the dwarvesFrom a Pulitzer Prize finalist comes a hilarious and heartbreaking novel about a musician climbing back from rock bottom. As winter deepens in snowbound Pollard, Illinois, thirty something Francis Falbo is holed up in his attic apartment, recovering from a series of traumas: his mother's death, his beloved wife's desertion, and his once ascendant rock band's irreconcilable break up. Francis hasn't shaved in months, hasn't so much as changed out of his

Except it's not just the man who's gone missing

that finally rescued the "lost battalion

and game birds

Rubinstein writes in a guns-ablazing style that perfectly fits the whiskey robber's tale

or other areas

After a dizzying series of twists

to look at the trees and flowers and sky

and explorers are pushing the limits ofendurance in the most forbidding corners of the earth

Nico O'Neilly is the glamorous

Raising healthy kids is harder than it used to be

there are certain things you must do for yourself

Ted recognizes locations and men he shouldn't know