Volume 35, Number 18 · November 24, 1988
The Frog Prince
By Alison Lurie
BOOKS DISCUSSED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake Wobegon Days
by Garrison Keillor
Penguin, 337 pp., $4.95 (paper)
Leaving Home
by Garrison Keillor
Penguin, 224 pp., $4.95 (forthcoming) (paper)
Happy to Be Here
by Garrison Keillor
Penguin, 275 pp., $3.95 (paper)
A Prairie Home Companion Folk Song Book
by Marcia Pankake, by Jon Pankake, with a foreword by Garrison Keillor
Viking, 316 pp., $22.95
Over the last few years Lake Wobegon, Minnesota (population 942), has become the best-known town of its size in America. Millions of people are sentimentally familiar with its rival Lutheran and Catholic churches; its Chatterbox Cafe, where the specials are always meatloaf and tunafish hotdish; Bertha's Kitty Boutique ('for persons who care about cats'), and Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery ('If you can't get it at Ralph's, you can probably get along without it').
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