The true story of Margaret Anderson - raped on a pool table and left for dead near a manure pile - shocked the populace of Green Bay, Wisconsin, during the 1983 Christmas holiday. Though nearly beheaded, the single mother fought hard for her life, but in the end Margaret died, leaving her teen son motherless.
The author of Population: 485 returns, delivering a tuckload of humor, heart, and . . . gardening tips? Think Zen and the Art of Mortorcycle Maintenance, complete with stock cars, sexy vegetables, and a laugh track.
"All I wanted to do was fix my old pickup truck," says Michael Perry. "that, and plant my garden. Then I met this wom more...