Love and Industry: A Midwestern Workbook

"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—...