The Summer He Didn't Die

About this book

Jim Harrisons new book The Summer He Didnt Die is a collection of novellas showcasing the flair that has made him a contemporary master of the form and a celebration of love the senses and family no matter how untraditional. The Summer He Didnt Die exults with life and all its magic. In the title novella Brown Dog a hapless Michigan Indian loved by Harrisons readers is trying to parent his two step-children and take care of his familys health on meager resources - it helps a bit that his charms are irresistible to the new dentist in town. Republican Wives is a witty satire on the sexual neuroses of the Right the mystery of why any person desires another and the irrational power of love that when thwarted can turn so easily into an urge to murder. Tracking is a meditation on Harrisons fascination with place telling his own familiar mythology through the places he has seen and the intellectual loves he has known in a vivid stream of consciousness that transfigures how we look at our own surroundings.