This collection of novellas is Jim Harrison at his most memorable. In The Land of Unlikeness, sixty-year-old art history academic Clive—a failed artist, divorced and grappling with the vagaries of his declining years—reluctantly returns to his family's Michigan farmhouse to visit his aging mother. The return to familiar territory triggers a jolt of renewal of things loved and lost. In Water Baby, an Upper Peninsula farm boy is irresistibly drawn to the water as an escape and sees otherworldly creatures there. Faced with the injustice and pressure of coming of age, he takes to the river and follows its siren song all the way across Lake Michigan.
- Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
- Subgenre: Literary
- Age: Adult
- Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc
- Pages: 240
- Language: English
- Format: hardcover
- Release Date: January 8, 2013
- Date Published: January 8, 2013
- Author: Jim Harrison