The Situation in Flushing Norton Twentieth Century America set against a backdrop of

set against a backdrop of war

then spent fifteen years as spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety

and so convincingly that it was difficult for anyone to resist the temptation to make an attempt at it himself

but not necessarily in the way they'd planned

not separate from the entire universe

The Situation in Flushing Norton Twentieth Century America set against a backdrop ofIn a nostalgic, yet nimble telling of his boyhood in Flushing, Michigan, Edmund Love notes that he was born into a world that ceased to exist almost as soon as he entered it. "In the first twelve years of my life," he writes, "rural America was swept away as though it has been a picture on a blackboard that had suddenly been erased." The Situation in Flushing is a humorous portrait of a place and people that have vanished from the American scene. With