Review\nJames Fowler is extraordinarily able to write characters who have reached an inflection point. Whether it's the twelve-year-old in the stolen Avalon, the promiscuous assistant at the bowling alley, the charming but complex family facing a recession, or even the whole town of Opal Spring, Fowler catches each at a crisis of what the future might bring. You will never forget their dilemmas. 
-Steve Yates, author of Some Kinds of Love: Stories, The Legend of the Albino Farm: A Novel, and others.\nAs a storyteller, James Fowler knows intimately the highways and byways of the mid-South, but he is equally acquainted with the mysterious and sometimes uncharted pathways of human experience. In Field Trip, he serves as an able, enlightening guide, taking us along with characters who are alternately curious, befuddled, questioning, and sometimes even noble. It's a meaningful journey, flavored with ample humor and fun. What more could be asked? 
-C. D. Albin, author of Hard Toward Home and Axle, Fire, Mule.\nField Trip immerses readers into the intricate modern South. In the title story, Raylene notes, "when you're trailer-born-and-bred, and can't see nothin' but trailer to come, it can make you do foolish things." Raylene has moved beyond that world, and Fowler's stories chart similar progress in characters so real, readers feel that they know them. 
-Lorie Watkins, editor of A Literary History of Mississippi.\nFowler's assortment of characters are placed in recognizable environments-a county fair, inside a travelling vehicle, the average small town, or a diverse neighborhood-yet there is something often troubling about their circumstances, some uncertainty about their situation or potential outcome that creates a need to discover what happens on the next page or in the next story. His prose is invigorating, lush, and sharp, igniting our imaginations as much as those of his young characters: a girl who keeps the "forces of evil" at bay, or a boy revisionist on the run, employing "self-amusement [as] his only option." -Tim Coone, editor, Cave Region Review.\nField Trip and Other Stories is a collection of thirteen short stories and one personal essay.Set largely in the mid-South, this collection sees its diverse characters traveling in place or outward bound as they strive to work through crises or simply avoid stagnation. Ranging from the Ozarks to the Gulf Coast, from the lowlands to the highlands of the spirit, these stories trace the trials, exertions, and growth of characters in the common stages of life from childhood to old age.

Field Trip: Stories

Literature & Fiction

Fowler, James

United States

Cornerpost Press

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