Sonya Huber

Love and Industry (eBook, ePUB)

A Midwestern Workbook

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"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.

Sometimes experimental and always inventive, Love and Industry: A Midwestern Workbook takes seriously Chicagoland's farthest reaches-gritty, sweeping, a region full of its own distinct feelings of "almostness"-and transforms them into a map of the heart, a ramshackle territory marked by memory, family, regret, determination, and wonderment.

"A must read" -Library Journal

"Huber is a masterful essayist" -Megan Stielstra, author of The Wrong Way to Save Your Life

"Sonya Huber has written a glorious midwestern road trip for the personal essay set." -Barrie Jean Borich, author of Apocalypse Darling, Body Geographic, and My Lesbian Husband

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Arcadia Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781953368591
• Artikelnr.: 67474499

Autorenporträt

Sonya Huber's books include Voice First: A Writer's Manifesto, the award-winning collection Pain Woman Takes Your Keys and Other Essays from a Nervous System, and Supremely Tiny Acts: A Memoir in a Day. Many of her books, including Opa Nobody and Cover Me: A Health Insurance Memoir, address labor and social movements, and she cofounded the Columbus, Ohio, chapter of Jobs with Justice as well as the 2017 online Disability March. Born and raised in Illinois, she has worked in the nonprofit sector, in social work, and she received the Kiplinger Fellowship in Public Interest Journalism and her MFA from the Ohio State University. She now teaches at Fairfield University in Connecticut.