{"product_id":"9781953368584","title":"Love and Industry","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eSonya Huber, author of the award-winning \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003ePain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e, offers a candid, lyrical look inside the unsung world of exurban Illinois.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAll in the Family\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSometimes experimental and always inventive, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLove and Industry: A Midwestern Workbook \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sonya Huber","offers":[{"title":"Belt Publishing |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2023-09-22","offer_id":44230041174271,"sku":"9781953368584","price":29.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_a85c1c2b-9d17-4492-94d9-09eb678de571.jpg?v=1692991075","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781953368584","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}