Kansas and Other States of Mind

Esbon, Kansas, lives in the background as the author delves into the past to look at the ways his experience on the farm affected his later life. Life experiences, often humorously presented here, reveal the ways in which religious experience can create confusion and anxiety. Three bouts with Gullain-Barre Syndrome upend the young boy's world, but a farm boy's work ethic makes survival inevitable. Along this life journey, readers meet many people who will make them laugh, make them cry, and who remind them that there's lots of human drama in the smallest of worlds.