I participated in Marshal Zeringue’s Page 99 Test at the Campaign for the American Reader. The blog is based on a quoteby the writerFord Madox Ford: “Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you.” New authors talk about the ninety-ninthpage of their book and what it says about itslarger themes.Here’s what I wrote about my book Cut Loose :

Page 99 talks about how the unemployed deal with the depression and anxiety that come from losing part of...