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Title: Warm-hearted nostalgia
Review: The author of this collection of short stories is a man of great heart and delicious humor. Starting with tales built on reminiscences of his childhood in semi-rural Oklahoma, Spradling explores some resonant--but ever unique--coming-of-age trials, then leads the reader through the kinds of incidents, painful and joyous, that populate all our lives. He ends with a hilarious and poignant account of how the weird carryings-on of Homo sapiens might look from the viewpoint of a most perceptive and lovable dog.Read these stories for their wit. Read them for the incisive ways they show us how it was in other times and places. Those places are mostly gone now, the times irretrievable, but, as "Mulberry Tree" reminds us, they are forever embedded in the story of America.
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