Lake Wobegon Days

"Lake Wobegon Days is about the way our beliefs, desires and fears tail off into abstractions--and get renewed from time to time. . . this book, unfolding Mr. Keillor's full design, is a genuine work of American history." -The New York Times

"A comic anatomy of what is small and ordinary and therefore potentially profound and universal in American life… Keillor's strength as a writer is to make the ordinary extraordinary." -Chicago Tribune

"Keillor's laughs come dear, not cheap, emerging from shared virtue and good character, from reassuring us of our neighborliness and strength… . His true subject is how daily life is shot with grace. Keillor writes a prose that can be turned to laughter, to tears… to compassion or satire, to a hundred effects. He is a brilliant parodist." -San Francisco Chronicle