In Wisconsin and Florida, in backyards, waiting rooms, boardrooms, and bedrooms, How We Do Things Here exposes the hilarity and heartbreak caused by a group of mess-makers struggling to survive themselves, each other, and the places they're trying to call home. Inside absurd and poignant moments that provoke much laughter and pain, Matt Cashion's cast of slow-learners reveals how we try (and fail) and retry to forge meaningful connections in the troubled spaces we're so desperate to share.

MATT CASHION is the author of Our 13th Divorce (2017), Last Words of the Holy Ghost (2015), and How the Sun Shines on Noise (2005). Winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize, the Edna Ferber Fiction Award, and the Zona Gale Award for Short Fiction, he lives in La Crosse, Wisconsin.