Super America : University of Georgia Press : 9780820333472 : 0820333476 : 01 Mar 2009 : In settings as different as Honolulu, Hawaii, small-town Minnesota, and Taxco, Mexico, these nine stories and a novella show blue-collar characters struggling to achieve the American Dream?and sometimes alienating friends and family as they try to upgrade their working-class pedigree. Anne Panning's people, despite their mixed record of success, make us root for them on their sometimes heartbreaking journeys of entrepreneurship, love, and loss. In ?Tidal Wave Wedding? a tsunami in Honolulu yields surprising results for a couple on their honeymoon. In ?All-U-Can-Eat,? a woman tries to stave off the investment of her inheritance into a restaurant specializing in frog legs. In the novella, ?Freeze,? a teenage son's future is forever complicated after a ?life altering? accident confines his father to a wheelchair and accelerates the disintegration of his parents' marriage. An eerie clinical replay of