Title: I'm Here Author: David Nikki Crouse ISBN: 9781597099349 Publisher: Boreal Books Published: 2023 Binding: Paperback Language: English Number of Pages: 272 Condition Note: New from the publisher Publisher Description: The stories in I'm Here dramatize life in the Alaskan interior, describing the difficult lives of people in Fairbanks, Alaska as they move through the long, brilliant days of summer into the deep winter months. These are characters living on the tenuous edge of things--on the economic edge caused by poverty and disillusion, on the dividing line between outsider and insider, and on the literal edge of the Alaskan wilderness. The stories in this collection move from beauty to danger and back again with decisive grace, although the lingering effect is not shock, but empathy toward people simultaneously alien and oddly familiar.