First book by Michigan fiction writer, Jeff Vande Zande. 5.5 x 8.5 184 pgs. perfect bound. Strong stories of working people and their struggles and joys.

Emergency Stopping & Other Stories (Working Lives Series)

Vande Zande, Jeff

Parenting & Relationships

Bottom Dog Press

An Oxycodone addict just out of rehab, Robby Cooper has debts to pay and a pregnant ex-girlfriend. As Robby struggles to jump-start his life on the crumbling streets of Detroit and its suburbs, his grandfather Otto invites him on a fly fishing road trip to northern Michigan. Driving his grandfather's '68 Firebird, Robby begins to understand how his family’s dysfunction spans generations...

Detroit Muscle

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Addiction & Recovery

Whistling Shade

Jeff Vande Zande's latest story collection travels down the shady lanes of the American neighborhood. From kids egging windows to lost joggers and insomniacs to basement prisoners and Orwellian gated communities, these stories grow ever more surreal, holding a darkened mirror up to that which we are-and may become.

The Neighborhood Division: Stories

Literature & Fiction

Short Stories & Anthologies

Betrayed by his art and disillusioned by his job as a professor, Ray Casper finds his long-time girlfriend has just left him. At the death of his estranged father, he links up with his out-of-work brother Sammy, and things really get complicated. Sammy moves in with Ray and needs a job; Ray needs inspiration to paint again, and both have to keep from killing each other. LANDSCAPE WITH FRAGMENTED FIGURES unites academia and working class in a tale of brothers, fathers and sons, art and love. It�s a tale of what it means for all of us to live in America in these times.

Landscape with Fragmented Figures: A Novel (Our Working Lives Series)

Arts & Photography

Thank you Jeff Vande Zande for creating the character of Denver Hoptner and returning him home for a Saginaw summer to be transformed by its malleable iron heat. Forged in personal crisis, Denver loved and hated his hometown as he walked its tension-filled streets where he felt his poetic voice unwelcome, another lost son, much like Roethke two generations before. Denver was stuck in writer�s block...until he learned that it was because of Saginaw that Roethke found his images to write...until he learned to go back to move forward...until he valued his father�s teachings of history of place and of hard work, not taking the easy way but do it right, only then was he able to discover his own uniqueness and potential in the context of his community....Denver�s �rite of passage,� so filled with courage, sacrifice and risk, guides us in what�s important. May more of us listen to his shouts of �Save this House� to serve Roethke�s hometown and to honor a poet�s life. May more of us climb with Denver and Jeff Vande Zande to become 'children on top of the greenhouse.' Let's have it crowded up there! �Annie Ransford, president Friends of Theodore Roethke

American Poet: A Novel

Literary