When Yellow Leaves

James Reiss's madcap miscellany of Americana features a young photographer's wide-angle view of his family versus the camera-shy tyranny of a dictator known as Guv'na Brush. Reiss's panoramic picture of the Wild West is as far out as his battle scene between men on mopeds and horsepeople with a taste for freedom and fine wine. Sentence by sentence, this is more than a lively read; it could be the story of our lives.