content: A fine writer whose work I have reviewed before (Commonplace Mysteries, reviewed in Texas Books in Review, in 1991 or 2--I can't remember exactly). Home Country (which you have "on order" )is an anthology of Bode's work to date and is a delightful, emminently readable work concerning the human nature of the writer's various subjects (many of whom live, work and die in the Texas Hill Country and the tri-cultural, border area of El Paso, Texas), as well as unpretentious descriptions of the landscape they all live in.