Several of the book's 11 stories are set in Elk Tooth, a two-bit town of three bars and 80 residents, many with mouth-clogging names: Gilbert Wolfscale, Hard Winter Ulph, Wiregrass Cokendall.
Copeland demonstrated the prosthetic hands at the firm's office in Hilliard, Ohio, showing how hand positions can also be remotely set with an iPad application using a blue-tooth connection.