Plenty of our regional authors routinely tackle stories about small-town Great Plains life, and Jonis Agee is no exception there. Less common is her abiding interest in stock-car racing. The Nebraska native (who taught at St. Kate’s here in Minnesota for two decades) has staked a claim as small-press fiction’s correspondent among the blue-collar set that spends its weekends down at the track. Even if watching fast cars zoom around in a circle is as exciting to you as the Indianapolis Watching Paint Dry 500, she’s worth a look. Her latest book, Acts of Love on Indigo Road, gathers new stories alongside selections from her previous collections Pretend We’ve Never Met, Bend This Heart, A .38 Special and a Broken Heart, and Taking the Wall. (She also reads at the Loft June 5.)
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