Books by Charles McLeod

In these seven stories spanning the Midwest to California, Charles McLeod brings us characters estranged from their homelands and locked in conflict with their past and present selves. Alternating between the comic, the tragic, and the neurotic, McLeod's second collection transports readers from the American mainstream to the dark edges of cities and the heartland's lost, forgotten towns.

These can be tough lives of tough love and tough luck but they are full of poignancy and intensity, and Charles McLeod writes about them thrillingly.

Meet Jim Haskin. He runs his own San Francisco ad firm, American Weather. However, behind the scenes, Jim supports the old captains of American industry: bleach, beer, guns. One day Jim is asked to come up with something extra-special.