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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
The Haunt of Home: A Journey Through America's Heartland

The Haunt of Home: A Journey Through America's Heartland

Jack, Zachary Michael

Paperback

Biographies GeneralLiterary CriticismRegional: Midwest

Publisher Price: $18.95

ISBN10: 1501751794
ISBN13: 9781501751790
Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
Published: Oct 15 2020
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.57 Width: 6.35 Depth: 8.98
Language: English

What does it mean to deeply love a home place that haunts us still? From Mark Twain to Grant Wood to Garrison Keillor, regionalists from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age have explored the American Gothic and the homegrown fatalism that flourish in many of the nation's most far-flung and forgotten places. The Haunt of Home introduces us to a cast of real-life Midwestern characters grappling with the Gothic in their own lives, from promising young professionals debating the perennial Should I stay or should I go dilemma, to recent émigrés and entrepreneurs seeking personal reinvention, to faithful boosters determined to keep their communities alive despite the odds. In The Haunt of Home Zachary Michael Jack considers the many ways a region's abiding spirit shapes the ethos of a land and its people, offering portraits of others who, like himself, are determined to live out the unique promise and predicament of the Gothic.

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