“These stories read like tall tales dictated from the future, their narrators enthusiastically discarding the usual interpretations of events, the usual histories of people and place. Skewed, slanted, refracted and remade, Madeline ffitch’s America is one of legend, a country of misunderstanding and mistake and sudden majesty that I’m thrilled to have visited.” —Matt Bell, author of In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods