Jacob M. Appel?s ninth collection of short stories features a missing psychiatric patient, a disgruntled alligator wrestler, a whale watch gone wrong and a love triangle set against the backdrop of John B. Anderson?s failed presidential campaign. As in his previous collections, Appel?s characters drift close to the edge of middle-class stability, always on the brink of toppling into the abyss.
Jacob M. Appel?s ninth collection of short stories features a missing psychiatric patient, a disgruntled alligator wrestler, a whale watch gone wrong and a love triangle set against the backdrop of John B. Anderson?s failed presidential campaign. As in his previous collections, Appel?s characters drift close to the edge of middle-class stability, always on the brink of toppling into the abyss.