"Few who live in Big Dipper Township have even heard about anything called the Egg Code; they're busy enough as it is. At one end of this tiny Midwestern community, a motivational speaker starts choling on his own words, while at another, an impressionable dancer struggles to realize her recurrent dreams of flying. An estranged wife becomes a counterfeit folklorist, while an aging typographer is besieged by regret."--Jacket.