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Boom Town

By: Garrison Keillor
Narrated by: Garrison Keillor
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Summary

Return to America’s most beloved fictional hometown! Lake Wobegon is having a boom year thanks to millennial entrepreneurship—AuntMildred’s.com Gourmet Meatloaf, for example, or Universal Fire, makers of artisanal firewood seasoned with sea salt. Meanwhile, the author flies in to give eulogies at the funerals of five classmates, including a couple whom he disliked, and he finds a wave of narcissism crashing on the rocks of Lutheran stoicism. He is restored by the humor and grace of his old girlfriend Arlene and a visit from his wife, Giselle, who arrives from New York for a big love scene in an old lake cabin.

Music composed and performed by Richard Dworsky

(c)2022 Richard Dworsky
©2022 Prairie Home Productions (P)2022 Prairie Home Productions
Fiction Literary Fiction Satire Small Town & Rural Comedy Witty
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So dead pan...a masterpiece of the quirky and barely believable.

Idiosyncratic reading of the highest order. A wonderful ending too. Treat yourself today, you won't regret it.

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Back to Wobegon for the final time

It definitely feels like the final outing to Wobegon. This made me laugh and cry. Everything changes so it was silly to think Lake Wobegon wouldn’t alter. There are deaths. There are jokes.

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