Fine Just the Way It Is

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Fine Just the Way It Is Fine Just the Way It Is

Author: Annie Proulx

Category: Literature

Published: 2008

Series: Wyoming Stories

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Generations struggle in the American frontier West. "Every ranch...had lost a boy," thinks Dakotah Hicks as she drives through "the hammered red landscape" of Wyoming, "boys smiling, sure in their risks, healthy, tipped out of the current of life by liquor and acceleration, rodeo smashups, bad horses, deep irrigation ditches, high trestles, tractor rollovers and 'unloaded' guns. Her boy, too...The trip along this road was a roll call of grief."