Lake Wobegon Days

Author(s): Garrison Keillor

Location(s): Minnesota

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): 1980s

“Filled with warmth and humor, sadness and tenderness, songs and poems, Lake Wobegon Days is an unforgettable portrait of small-town American life, of why ‘we are what we are’ and why ‘smart doesn’t count for much.”

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