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"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...
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A wealthy and depressed Chicago man, bound for Christmas in Hawaii, is abruptly summoned home to North Dakota. He arrives just in time to be trapped there by a blizzard. During his stay, he reaches an epiphany worthy of the season and resolves to simplify his life.
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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.
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"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.
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