Loaded for Bear: Adventures and Misadventures from the Appalachians to the Chesapeake -- George Miller, Paperback

The stories in Loaded for Bear are told through the voice of a male narrator. But he is a shape shifter, ranging in age from a boy to a retiree, and holding forth from each of the decades in between.

We encounter him, variously, as a city newspaper boy and as a farmette preteen; a Vietnam War draftee and a young father and groom-to-be; frightened son and a troubled veteran; a brother and bereaved lover; a divorced single father of adolescent girls, then grown daughters; a dutiful nephew and reluctant farmyard midwife; a colleague forced to interview a Palestinian immigrant for his Green Card certification. And once, apparently, as one of a circle of female cousins.

In each encounter, we find ourselves invited observers in alternative universes, as befuddled as the unwitting characters by the circumstances that enwrap them.

Author: George Miller
Publisher: New Bay Books LLC
Published: 07/14/2024
Pages: 132
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.50w x 0.36d
ISBN: 9798988299820