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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
By the Iowa Sea

By the Iowa Sea

Blair, Joe

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ISBN10: 1451636067
ISBN13: 9781451636062
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: Mar 5 2013
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.82 Width: 5.56 Depth: 8.31
Language: English
This vivid memoir about the heartbreaks and ecstasies of marriage, fatherhood, and small-town Midwestern life is so raw and true you'll gasp (O, The Oprah Magazine).Heralding the arrival of an original American voice, By the Iowa Sea is a wrenching, unsentimental account of the heartbreaks and ecstasies of marriage, fatherhood, and small-town Midwestern life. After his first cross-country motorcycle trip, Joe Blair believed he had discovered his calling: he would travel; he would never cave in to convention; he would never settle down. Fifteen years later, he finds himself living in Iowa, working as an air-conditioning repairman and spending his free time cleaning gutters, taxiing his children, and contemplating marital infidelity. When the Iowa River floods, transforming the familiar streets of his small town into a terrible and beautiful sea, Joe begins to question the path that led him to this place. Exquisitely observed and lyrically recounted, this is a compelling and often humorous account of an ordinary man's struggle to live an extraordinary life.

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