Fiction. Betrayed by his art and disillusioned by his job as a professor, Ray Casper finds his long-time girlfriend has just left him. At the death of his estranged father, he links up with his out-of-work brother Sammy, and things really get complicated. Sammy moves in with Ray and needs a job; Ray needs inspiration to paint again, and both have to keep from killing each other. LANDSCAPE WITH FRAGMENTED FIGURES unites academia and working class in a tale of brothers, fathers and sons, art and love. It's a tale of what it means for all of us to live in America in these times.

Author City: SAGINAW, MI USA

Jeff Vande Zande writes poetry, fiction, and screenplays. His fiction includes EMERGENCY STOPPING AND OTHER STORIES (Bottom Dog Press, 2004), Into the Desperate Country (March Street Press, 2006), LANDSCAPE WITH FRAGMENTED FIGURES (Bottom Dog Press, 2009) and AMERICAN POET: A NOVEL (Bottom Dog Press, 2012). He teaches at Delta College in upstate Michigan.

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