How to Cuss in Western: And Other Missives from the High Desert

By Michael Branch. Shambhala / Roost Books (distributed by Penguin Random House), 2018.

This book of humorous creative nonfiction contains 35 essays, each a small story about the wildlife, landscape, and strange human characters in the remote high desert. By turns moving and funny, these essays deeply engage a home landscape, exploring the inspiring beauty and often the downright weirdness of living in a place that is both exhilarating and intimidating. The stories included here range from flash floods to wildfire, from rodeos to the Muppets, from harvester ants to hens to hedgehogs, from stirring septic tanks to trapping leprechauns, and include a practical lesson on western American profanity and a natural and literary history of flatulence.

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