Unpleasantries

"Even from upside-down in his recently flipped truck, Frank Soos reveals himself to be ruminative, grappling with the limitations of language to express the human condition. Moving quickly--skiing in the dark or taking long summer bike rides on Alaska highways--Soos combines an active physical life with a dark and difficult interior existence, wrestling the full span of 'thinking and doing' onto the page with surprising lightness. His meditations move from fly-fishing in dangerously swift Alaska rivers to memories of the liars and dirty-joke tellers of his small-town Virginia childhood,…