Is Where the Heart is a collection of short fiction from Rhode Island poet and columnist Laurence J. Sasso, Jr. With a combination of nostalgia, wit, pathos, and grit, the author peels back the bucolic surface of a lively rural community to reveal the inner nature of its inhabitants at their best and their worst. Like random snapshots found in an attic, the stories stand independently, but allow those who discover them to piece the images together and make of them what they will. The town could be almost anywhere in America, and the time could be today or 40 years ago. But the themes and the feelings are right here and right now.