Love and Industry - Huber, Sonya
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"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…mehr

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"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."
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.