People from Bloomington by Budi Darma

People from Bloomington by Budi Darman these seven stories of People from Bloomington, our peculiar narrators find themselves in the most peculiar of circumstances and encounter the most peculiar of people. Set in Bloomington, Indiana, where the author lived as a graduate student in the 1970s, this is far from the idyllic portrait of small town America. Rather, sectioned into apartment units and rented rooms, and gridded by long empty streets and distances traversable only by car, its a

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