This sprawling, footnoted, comedic epic centers around Vonn Carp, who travels to his hometown of Columbus, Ohio, for a funeral. He is returning disgraced and destitute, when, after a long and productive career in higher education, he was discovered to have falsified his academic credentials 20 years prior. Recently divorced and suddenly unemployable, he reluctantly agrees to join his father, Milt, in what he considers an iffy business venture—Dollarapalooza, a family-owned dollar store.For Milt the shop is the fulfillment of a lifelong dream for old fashioned mercantilism, a \u201cgeneral\u201d store. The store falls on hard times when a massive, big box \u201cWow-Mart\u201d opens across the street and after a nearly tragic armed robbery in his store, Milt disappears. To the surprise and chagrin of the Carp family, Vonn insists on re-opening Dollarapalooza. Along with the storeÆs eccentric staff, Vonn fashions an alternative business model aiming to make a difference in peopleÆs lives \u201cone dollar at a time.\u201d For just one dollar, Vonn will answer anybodyÆs question on any topic, and the citizens of Columbus come to him seeking his opinions on subjects like love, celibacy, anthropology, metaphysics, the Internet, and the true meaning of value. Through his interactions with the storeÆs staff and customers, he conceives a new way of life with a changed outlook and a restored sense of purpose.
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Gregg Sapp, a native Ohioan, is a writer, librarian, college teacher, and academic administrator. This is his first novel.
Vonn knew that Columbus had always had an inferiority complex about being sandwiched between Cincinnati and Cleveland, two bonafide big league towns with major league franchises to prove it. (And, hell, even plain old Indianapolis had a stolen football team.) Somehow, though, a hockey team and a soccer squad didn’t seem “genuine” go him: a sentiment which Milt expressed when he grumbled, “Them’s just games for canucks and quiche eaters. We’re here for baseball, goddamnit.”
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