In the Land of the Dinosaur: Ten Stories and a Novella

In the Land of the Dinosaur: Ten Stories and a Novella—In the Land of the Dinosaur is set in 1980s small-town and rural Wisconsin. The title story, which opens the collection, creates its landscape and sets the tone of an insular world buffeted by change. The stories are not connected in terms of action, but place is their great unifier and many of the book's central characters reappear in the the final piece, a disturbing coming-of-age story, “The Killing.”