Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest

by B. H. Fairchild

**Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.** B. H. Fairchild's memory systems are the collective vision of America's despairing dreamers―failed baseball players, oil field laborers, a surrealist priest, college boys at a burlesque theater, the last remaining cast members of *The Wizard of Oz*. Looming over all is the fact and the mystery of our continued renewal.