“You can’t go home again unless you’re Garrison Keillor and home is Lake Wobegon. But at the same time, he’s got our number that way he’s always had it.

Keillor’s speaking to us with encouragement and empathy about the American life. 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.

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. 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. **Available in Hardcover, Audiobook, and eReader formats**

In Garrison Keillor’s newest novel, Boom Town, we return to Lake Wobegon, famous from decades of monologues on the classic radio show A Prairie Home Companion.

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