Pontoon

Renowned storyteller Garrison Keillor first began spinning the tales of the all-American town of Lake Wobegon on his radio program "A Prairie Home Companion." Now in his first novel about the fictional Minnesota town in six years, Keillor retells the tale of Barbara Peterson and her boyfriend Brent's wedding. From Lutheran pastors to notes about cremations to a flying Elvis, the grand occasion of Barbara and Brent's wedding will attract a circus of attention, while also painting the bittersweet tale of Barbara's eighty-two year old grandmother Evelyn final submission to the angel of death. "Pontoon" is another old-fashion yarn about courage and transformation in a town stuck in its ways.