{"product_id":"love-and-industry-a-midwestern-workbook-9781953368584","title":"Love and Industry: A Midwestern Workbook","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSonya Huber, author of the award-winning \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e, offers a candid, lyrical look inside the unsung world of exurban Illinois.\u003c\/strong\u003eNew 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 \u003cem\u003eAll in the Family\u003c\/em\u003e, 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, \u003cem\u003eLove and Industry: A Midwestern Workbook \u003c\/em\u003etakes 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Belt Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/12\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781953368584\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 190\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.00h x 4.90w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2023 pg. 88\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Sonya Huber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44273837342901,"sku":"9781953368584","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_70ac9bfd-5649-4663-9f6b-1012e6e84509.jpg?v=1718082791","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/love-and-industry-a-midwestern-workbook-9781953368584","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}