Bratwurst Haven: Stories

"An excellent collection that's likely to appeal to fans of Alice Munro and Tobias Wolff--or to anybody with a taste for emotionally resonant short fiction." --Kirkus Reviews

It's almost a decade after the Great Recession, and in Colorado, St. Anthony Sausage has not recovered. Neither have its employees: a laid-off railway engineer, an exiled computer whiz, a young woman estranged from her infant daughter, an older man with cancer who lacks health care. As these low-wage workers interact under the supervision of the factory's owner and his quietly rebellious daughter, they come to understand that in America's postindustrial landscape, although they may help or comfort each other, they also have to do what's best for themselves.

Over the course of these twelve interrelated stories, Rachel King gives life to diverse, complex, and authentic characters who are linked through the sausage factory and through their daily lives in a vividly rendered small town in Boulder County. The internal and external struggles of Bratwurst Haven's population are immediately and intimately relatable and resonant: these people seek answers within the world they inhabit while questioning what it means to want more from their lives.


Binding Type: Paperback
Author: King, Rachel
Published: 11/01/2022
Publisher: West Virginia University Press
ISBN: 9781952271496
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.10w x 0.70d