A Gravestone Made of Wheat. Will Weaver

      

      A GRAVESTONE MADE OF WHEAT

      The Short Story That Inspired Sweet Land

      with New Reader’s Guide

      Will Weaver

      An MHS Express e-short, excerpted from Sweet Land: New and Selected Stories by Will Weaver

       (Borealis Books, 2006)

      © 2012 by Will Weaver. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. For information, write to the Minnesota Historical Society Press, 345 Kellogg Blvd. W., St. Paul, MN 55102-1906.

      This e-short is excerpted from Will Weaver, Sweet Land: New and Selected Stories (St. Paul: Borealis Books, 2006).

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      ISBN: 978-0-87351-880-2 (e-book)

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      A version of this story first appeared in Prairie Schooner (1982).