In these eleven mesmerizing stories, Charles Baxter plunges into the undertow of middle-class American life as he explores the unruly desires, inexplicable dread, unforeseen tragedy, and sudden moments of grace that mark those lives. A drunken graduate student hurtles cheerfully through a snowstorm to rescue a fiancee who no longer wants him. A hospital maintenance worker makes a perverse bid for his place in the sunlight of celebrity. A man and a woman who have lost their only child cling fiercely to the one thing they have left of her - their grief. Lit by the quiet lightning of Baxter's prose, Through the Safety Net is filled with rare artistry and feeling. | Through The Safety Net by Charles Baxter, Paperback | Indigo Chapters