Introduction to Bringing the Family
I grew up in rural Wisconsin, with all the nostalgia, repression, and cultural baggage that entails. If you’ve seen A Christmas Story, that was my existence. It was a wonderful place and time to grow up, but it also had its own nightmares for an “odd duck” kid who liked to dream, to read comic books and science fiction novels, a kid who wanted to be a writer someday.
Over the course of my career, I have returned again and again to the fictional town of Tucker’s Grove, Wisconsin, with its dark history and even darker happenings. This is the first story, chronologically, in the Tucker’s Grove sequence, with the members of the Tucker family staking their claim in the untouched farmlands of southern Wisconsin in the 1800s.
You’ll see that things don’t always turn out well.