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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Love and Industry: A Midwestern Workbook

Love and Industry: A Midwestern Workbook

Huber, Sonya

Paperback

Biographies GeneralLetters & EssaysRegional: Midwest

Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 1953368581
ISBN13: 9781953368584
Publisher: Belt Publishing
Published: Sep 12 2023
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.50 Width: 4.90 Depth: 7.00
Language: English
Awards: Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards

The 20 essays . . . pack a punch--not the sort that gives you an immediate bruise, but one that leaves you strangely sore for days . . . --Kerry Cardoza, Chicago Reader

New Lenox, Illinois, is a small town deep in the corn grid of the Midwest, where it runs up against the grid of south Chicagoland, a placeless location marked by geographical flatness and dwindling industry. It's also where Sonya Huber grew up, and in the twenty essays collected here, she lovingly explores the ways New Lenox--and the Midwest more generally--has come to define her life. Here, you'll find portraits of Huber's parents as they tirelessly run a small business, homages to the Gen-X joys of wearing flannel, secret insights about being a Pizza Hut waitress, and odes to the ecstasy of blasting classic rock as your car hurls along I-80. Whether she's writing about All in the Family, detailing the region's influence on David Foster Wallace, or exploring the poetry embedded in a can of Miller High Life, her vision is astute and her prose convincing.

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