Where the Sun Don't Shine

In 1969, an underground mine fire lit the fuse on a Pennsylvania town. Thirty years later, the few who remain in this desolate, lawless place will discover something there worth a fight. Gunther Gott is a dive bartender at the last business operating in town. He has few friends. He's in love with a girl who doesn't exactly second the emotion. He's accomplished nothing in this life except how to achieve the perfect "pour," and doesn't see a whole lot of reasons to push beyond that. But there are others in town who want to take what little he has. A single gunshot will put him on a new path. A second gunshot will push him down it. And when Gunther realizes the truth about this long-dead town, he will become the one man nobody expects defending the one place nobody wants. And doing it for the best reason: Payback. "There's great poetry in slow decay, and Zimmerman's eye for texture finds fertile ground in the crumbling, anthracite coal underbelly of this fictional PA town. In a world of pre-fab reality TV shows and silicone everything, the characters in Where the Sun Don't Shine remind the reader that there's a real world out there, warts, sinkholes, sawed-off shotguns, and all. Go ahead, pull up a stool. You'll like what he's pouring." --Matt Bean, former editor-in-chief, Entertainment Weekly

Barry "Jack" Frost was completely unprepared at age 52 for the news that he had stage four colon cancer. In this unflinching account of his two and a half year journey to recovery, it is clear that his sense of humor remained intact, even when his illness was at its worst. With the support of medical staff, family, and friends, Frost found ways to cope and even learned to help others in similar pain. In Where the Sun Don''t Shine, Frost takes a frank look at colon cancer as he shares his own story, along with ideas that might help other patients and their families. He shares approaches that worked for him, as well as what did not, and deals with the reality of life with a colostomy,