I-96: Short Stories

Like cars snaking down the interstate, Judith Roof's I-96 offers a contemporary collection of singular yet connected short stories fueled by America's lifeblood: individualism and gasoline. Roof's incendiary wit and sly commentary poke at the "-isms" driving our collective road rage . . . regional and political stereotypes, gender and sexual anxieties, parenting and policing, anti-intellectualism and aging, and the being and nothingness that comprise the human condition. In the vein of Kurt...