In this collection of stories from Lake Wobegon, the author takes us to a place that is everyone's home town - where the women are strong and the men are good-looking and all the children are above average. Is is a celebration of the life and the people of that place, narrated with wit. Keillor has also written "Lake Wobegon Days" and "Happy to be Here". From 1974 to 1987 he was host of the popular American live radio show, "A Prairie Home Companion" in which he described the town of Lake Wobegon.
- ISBN10 0140117644
- ISBN13 9780140117646
- Publish Date 3 January 1989 (first published 29 October 1987)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 February 2021
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
- Imprint Penguin USA
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Language English