"It's been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon, my home town . . ." Lake Wobegon has been Garrison Keillor's fictional home town-and America's-for almost 40 years. Many of us have grown up with "the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve." The Chatterbox Cafe, the Sidetrack Tap, the Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Responsibility, the Bunsens and the Krebsbachs, the Lake Wobegon Whippets-these are places, people, and sports teams we know...

It's Lake Wobegon as you've imagined it: a tightly knit community that sometimes draws you home and sometimes gives you wings to fly away.

Ten new stories from the live broadcasts of A prairie home companion.

"Family gatherings, holiday celebrations, the predictable, the unexpected -- a lot goes on over the course of a year, even in a small town. This collection gathers together 12 _above-average_ Lake Wobegon stories from live broadcasts A Prairie Home Companion to demonstrate that much can happen in "the little town that time forgot and decades cannot improve."" -- Container.