A small village in northern Wisconsin is the backdrop for tragedy and heroism. The heroes in this book are a one eyed divorced butcher called the beagle and two brothers and a mother. In a village this small it is said to be a volunteer firefighter just a pulse is required. It balances tragedy with a sense of small town Midwestern humor. The tragedies in this book reacquaint the author with his childhood village. Through his experiences as a volunteer firefighter and EMT he ponders life and death. Esquire Magazine calls it “Quietly devastating … intimate and disarming and lovely”.
