Bigfoot Dreams Author:Francine Prose Vera Perl, the bright, edgy heroine of Bigfoot Dreams, is the star reporter of a sleazy supermarket tabloid. At work, she conjures up stories about UFO sightings, miracle cures in vegetable gardens, evidence of life after death, and the ever-popular Bigfoot. At home, she contends with a precocious daughter, an errant husband, and her own fantasi... more »es. It all works well enough if she doesn't think too deeply. But then one day Vera discovers that one of the stories she's invented has turned out to be true in ways she never could have dreamed...
Sharp, funny, moving, and profound, Bigfoot Dreams is vintage Francine Prose. She gets to the heart of a world where tabloid headlines -- ELVIS ALIVE AND WELL ON MARS -- are the closest we come to the marvelous, and where the irrepressible human longing for the astonishing and the unexplained can be fulfilled.« less