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Every winter, Tommy Jack McMorsey makes the long haul from Texas to northern Minnesota to watch the meteor showers. One cold night, in a moment of kindness, Tommy picks up a deluded Japanese tourist determined to find the buried ransom money from the movie Fargo. When she dies of exposure in Tommy Jack's care, a media storm erupts, jarring loose pieces of Tommy Jack's past: the horrors of Vietnam, a love affair, and the suicide of his closest friend, Fred Howkowski.

Eric Gansworth, a member of the Onondaga Nation, was born and raised in western New York. The author of seven books, including A Half-Life of Cardio-Pulmonary Function, which was included on the National Book Critics' Cricle's "Good Reads" List for Spring 2008, and Mending Skins, which won the PEN Oakland Award in 2006, Gansworth teaches at Canisius College and lives in Niagara Falls, New York.