[close] IN THE LAND OF THE FREE combines ten very short fictions into a a limited edition chapbook with a letterpress cover. In a language that is lean and honest, and in tones that are funny and sad, Geoffrey Forsyth sends his young characters through hallways and houses in the suburbs, through graveyards and wooded nooks, through bars and high school parking lots, bringing each of them to the heart of the American moment, where the pursuit of freedom inevitably begins. [close]