Jim Brown reviewed Potted Meat by Steven Dunn
a story told in fragments
This is a picture of a working class town in West Virginia, told in narrative fragments.
Here's one fragment that gives you a sense for how the narrator, a young boy living in the town, paints the picture:
"Yellow
Everyone is downstairs crying. I walk upstairs to Grandma's room. It is dark. Her dirty pink house shoes are lined up by the nightstand like she just got into bed. The covers on her side are pulled back like she just got out of bed. I leave and ask my mom how Grandma died. My mom says she just turned yellow and died. What, I say. You heard me, she says, she just turned yellow and died. I will never eat dandelions again."