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Population: 485- Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time (P.S.)

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Mike Perry’s ordinary and thoughtful account of meeting the people of his small homeland by joining the fire and rescue team was once a breakout hit that “swells with unadorned heroism” (USA Today)

Welcome to New Auburn, Wisconsin (population: 485) where the local vigilante is a farmer’s wife armed with a pistol and a Bible, the most senior member of the volunteer fire department is a cross-eyed butcher with one kidney and two ex-wives (either one of whom work on the only gas station on the town), and the back roads are haunted by the ghosts of children and farmers. Michael Perry loves this place. He grew up here, and now-after a decade away-he has returned.

Unable to polka or repair his own pickup, his farm-boy hands gone soft after years of writing, Mike figures one of the simplest ways to regain his credibility is to enroll in the volunteer fire department. Against a backdrop of fires and tangled wrecks, bar fights and smelt feeds, he tells a ceaselessly comic tale leavened with moments of heartbreaking delicacy and searing tragedy.

Tracing his calls on a map in the little firehouse, he sees “a dense, benevolent internet, spun one frantic zigzag at a time” from which the story of a tiny town emerges.

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