Around the Sound: Amusing Thoughts and Tales from Washington's Puget Sound

Around Puget Sound there's a whole loop of small towns nobody writes ballads about. It turns out they're the funniest places on the map.

Josh Kilen takes you on one slow lap around the water, through the towns most people only ever see through a windshield doing sixty on their way to somewhere they consider more important. He stops in every one, digs up the local history nobody asked for, and finds the comedy hiding in all of it.

You'll meet a town that got its name by a clerical error and th...