Waiting for Rain Author:Dan Butterworth ISBN #0945575785 (number being used for hardback in system). — Front cover: "One Farmer's struggle to hold on to a vanishing American dream." — Location of story: South Carolina. — Back cover: "Here is the snake in paradise: here's something that isn't at all what it appears to be. This is the loan assessment. Even though I'm in debt, the bank w... more »ill give me anything I want. Hell, the bank encourages me to take what I want. You can look at your assets all you want, and there ain't a bit of profit to be found. But the banks count the property, which I can't sell. Noboby would buy it. I've tried. They count your machinery and buildings, even though they aren't worth anything to anybody but me. They count the house, and my tractor and truck, and Waynette's car, but hell, who's going to put those things on the line? The problem is, you look at this loan sheet and it says I'm doing great. But not a damn bit of what they count produces anything we can live on, let alone pay the debt with. The truth is nobody really owns anything: you just can't own anything these days."« less