Wobegon Boy: A Novel (Abridged)

Keillor's follow up to Lake Wobegon Days has his protagonist, John Tollefson, now a 40-something radio station manager living in upstate New York, return to Minnesota for a life-changing visit.

John Tollefson, a son of Lake Wobegon, has moved East to manage a radio station at a college for academically challenged children of financially gifted parents in upstate New York. Having achieved this pleasant perch, John has a brilliant idea for a restaurant specializing in fresh sweet corn. And he falls in love with an historian named Alida Freeman, hard at work on a book about a nineteenth-century Norwegian naturopath, an acquaintance of Lincoln, Thoreau, Whitman, and Susan B. Anthony.