Beschrijving

The sights, sounds, tastes, and smells of nearly sixty small towns, as well as the zany stories behind them, guided by an AAA Road Atlas, expert local storytellers, and lots of curiosity. This comic and insightful work is a long, winding trip into the back roads of the country and a longer one into the hinterland of our own hearts.

What is a Storyville? Whether you’re in Toast, North Carolina, Monkey’s Eyebrow, Kentucky, or Winner, South Dakota, a Storyville is a real town you can find on a map, with a tale behind its quirky name. Covering 20,000 miles of U.S. roads, Dale Peterson drove with his kids, Britt and Bayne, from Start, Louisiana, to Deadhorse, Alaska in search of small-town America in the \