In this collection of stories from Lake Wobegon, the author takes us to a place that is everyone's home town - where the women are strong and the men are good-looking and all the children are above average. Is is a celebration of the life and the people of that place, narrated with wit. Keillor has also written "Lake Wobegon Days" and "Happy to be Here". From 1974 to 1987 he was host of the popular American live radio show, "A Prairie Home Companion" in which he described the town of Lake Wobegon.