Ten short stories about the diverse and often eccentric fly fishing guides, ranchers, river drifters, and anglers that frequent tiny Maupin, Oregon, on the Deschutes River. Friendship and affection, lust and passion, family and duty bubble to the surface with results ranging from poignant to hilarious. You have to wonder: Is the god of love delicate and deft–or blind and bumbling? Or all of these at the same time? Richmond writes about real people in real situations and reveals the forces that either drive us apart or bind us together.