The Kingwood Almanac: A Perpetual Calendar of Filings, Forecasts, and Fines (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798188696702)

Every almanac promises to tell you when to plant, when to fish, and what the weather will do. This one tells you all of that - badly - and then hands you one verbatim statement from the public record of Sandy Harper for every one of the 366 days of the year.

Open to today's date. There's a filing waiting. Beneath it: the day's horoscope ("The mail runs on time today. Ask yourself why."), the phase of the moon, the running tally of municipal fines, and whatever the Records Clerk saw fit to enter into evidence.

Between the daily pages you'll find the things a proper almanac requires - a hand-drawn map of town, a planting table, real Preston County fishing waters, a contested recipe for buckwheat cakes, and a short, heavily annotated history of Kingwood - plus one thing no other almanac has ever needed: a year-end docket of evidence in the matter of Susan from the post office.

It is perpetual. It does not expire. Neither, apparently, does the subject.

The companion volume to That Damn Susan. A page a day, every day, forever.