Welcome to Utopia: Notes from a Small Town

BONUS: This edition contains a new Afterword and a reading group guide.

Utopia, Texas: It’s either the best place on earth, or it’s no place at all.

In the twenty-first century, it’s difficult to imagine any element of American life that remains untouched by popular culture, let alone an entire community existing outside the empire of pop. But Karen Valby discovered the tiny town of Utopia tucked away in the Texas Hill Country. There are no movie theaters for sixty miles in any direction, no...