Dennis Acres, Missouri has only 53 people since NOLA, Benny's mother, left his dad...again. "There were only 3 streets and 29 houses in the whole town." Benny, whose real name is Beignet, feels as if "a change was coming that would transform everything." As it turns out he's right. His dad's collection fetish is worse than ever, turning their house into an unbelievable mess. Miss Tina Turnipson, the kindergarten teacher, has written an essay contest entry for her creative writing class naming and embellishing Dennis Acres as "America's Most Charming Small Town." Representatives from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce are coming to Dennis Acres in five weeks to meet the residents of the winning town, but Dennis Acres is "ugly as sin and dull as dish water, and now everyone's going to know. [They'll] be the laughingstock of America." "Anything could happen, Anything was possible." Can a tornado be a good thing?
"Was history just one long story of people trying to get along?"
Mark Twain Award Preliminary Nominee 2014-15
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