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In the center of the rural boomtown of Soda Springs, Idaho, stands the historic Enders Hotel, Café, and Bar, a three-story brick building that has been many things to many people. But to one family who bought it as an attempt to renew themselves it was home, a place they desperately tried to hold on to and yet, after seventeen years of living there, the very place from which they wanted to escape. Growing up under its leaking roof, Brandon R. Schrand watched a cast of broken characters pass through the hotel doors—an alcoholic artist, a forgotten boxing champ, an ex-con, a homeless family—and tried to find his own identity among those revolving faces. Haunted by a father he had never seen, he tested the faces of those drifters for familiarity. Winner of the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize, The Enders Hotel reveals the promises and warnings of western boomtown life—stories of alcoholism, murder, betrayal, hope, and finally, redemption.
Contents
1. Restless Men2. Reconstruction3. A Storied History4. A Traceable Past5. Patterns6. Initiation7. Guns8. Apparitions9. Generations10. The Boxer11. Boom and Bust12. Boys13. The Artist14. The Texans15. The Knock of Experience16. The Trapper17. The Ex-Con and the Ex-Professor18. Legacy19. Two Men in a Car20. Substitute21. The Man Missing22. A New Year23. Requiem24. Visitors25. The Hand Out26. Apprentice27. The Man on the Stairs28. The Man in the Phone Booth29. The Waitress30. Father to Son31. A Common Story32. Bear33. Other Places34. Trouble35. The Cowboy36. B.J.37. After Labor Day38. New Management39. College40. EndersEpilogue
