Lingering Inland: A Literary Tour of the Midwest -- Andy Oler, Paperback

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Lingering Inland: A Literary Tour of the Midwest -- Andy Oler, PaperbackHow do the stories we tell about Midwestern places influence or reflect our experiences? How is the literature of a place or a region relevant to the people who live there? In this expansive anthology, Andy Oler collects 72 original short essays by a diverse array of contemporary writers. Each explores locales in Midwestern literature relevant to the life and work of literary figures and canonical authors such as Toni Morrison and Willa Cather.

a novel of haunting metaphysical suspense about an elderly widow whose life is upturned when she finds an ominous note on a walk in the woods

as Will scrambles to solve a shocking murder before Lillian takes the fall for the crime

Hannah Pick-Goslar and her family fled Nazi Germany to live in Amsterdam

Claris and her best friend

But the vacation of their dreams disintegrates in a flash when the resort is taken over by a group of masked women who are very armed and very angry

It's time to live into the promise

From astrophysicist Adam Frank

math lessons are presented simply

Based on Chinese Folklore

This book features an introduction from Lawrence--whose family was part of this great migration--about its personal significance as well as a poem by Newbery Honor author Walter Dean Myers

They then show how our Constitution makes us uniquely vulnerable to attacks from within: It is a pernicious enabler of minority rule

Her ordinary life is about to be anything but

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