After the Gold Rush

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by Lewis Buzbee

After the Gold Rush is filled with powerful, moving stories of families tested by forces inside and out. Even when life conspires to tear them apart, the family must cope, figure out what comes next. These are stories about life at its most quotidian—and most challenging— level, after the gold rush of love has become the business of living. The people in these stories, like the people around you every day, discover inner resources and solutions both unique and universal.

by Lewis Buzbee

After the Gold Rush is filled with powerful, moving stories of families tested by forces inside and out. Even when life conspires to tear them apart, the family must cope, figure out what comes next. These are stories about life at its most quotidian—and most challenging— level, after the gold rush of love has become the business of living. The people in these stories, like the people around you every day, discover inner resources and solutions both unique and universal.

About the Author

A third generation Californian, and the first in his family to attend college, Lewis Buzbee has been writing since age 12 when his father died. In college, he worked in bookstores (Upstart Crow in San Jose, then eventually managing Printers Inc. in Palo Alto). In 1986, he became a sales rep for Chronicle Books in northern California. He earned his MFA from Warren Wilson College. Buzbee is the author of a novel, Fliegelman’s Desire, (1990, Ballantine) and a non-fiction work, The Yellow Lighted Bookshop, (2006, Graywolf). He has been published in Harper’s, Paris Review, Bloomsbury Review, The San Francisco Chronicle, and Gentleman’s Quarterly, among others.

Advanced Praise

“I love all the maps, magical gardens, cities that bloom in these stories of ordinary lives. Buzbee gauges beautifully the degree to which the ordinary intersects with the astonishing, persuading the reader again and again of their indivisibility. The loneliness of the characters in these delicately nuanced stories does not burden them but drives them to seek connection, make amends, reconstruct their lives.” -Catherine Brady

“After the Gold Rush is all about family—sweet and bittersweet. Buzbee gives us the essential characters and predicaments—mothers, fathers, sons and daughters. It is wonderful to have such clear-eyed and mature sentiment about these most basic losses and gains.” -John Casey

Awards After the Gold Rush has been named a bronze medalist in the 2007 Independent Publisher Book Awards. The IPPY Awards recognize and celebrate the best that the independent press has to offer. 2,690 books were submitted.

2006 ForeWord General Fiction Book of the Year Finalist

Format: Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-932195-38-5