The Heart Can Be Filled Anywhere on Earth
by Bill Holm
The author of Eccentric Islands and Coming Home Crazy
sends us a postcard from home, investigating—through the lens of
small-town life—what community means to us and the rigid definitions we
give to "success" and "failure."
Growing up, Bill Holm could define failure easily; it was "to die in
Minneota." But when he returned to his hometown ("a very small dot on
the ghost of an ocean of grass") twenty years later, he began to
uncover its lost histories and to discover more of himself and of our
time. By stepping out of the mainstream into what others regard as a
backwater, Holm began to question the pace of our culture and how, in
the rush to get ahead, we've lost our roots.
Whether tracking the forbidden Icelandic recipes of Holm's parents or
spilling the beans on the scandalous affair of Hester and Art, The Heart Can Be Filled Anywhere on Earth celebrates the connections between us.
Bill Holm
Author's Bio:Bill Holm is the author of Eccentric Islands: Travels Real and Imaginary, Coming Home Crazy: An Alphabet of China Essays, Boxelder Bug Variations, and The Dead Get By with Everything (all Milkweed). He lives in Minneota, Minnesota, in a house that cost $5,000 in 1977 and has since steadily declined in value.
Quotes:"The tallest radical humorist in the Midwest and a truthful and graceful writer.”—Garrison Keillor
"Bill Holm’s is a classic American voice, but of a kind we haven’t
often heard lately. It’s the voice of the prairie radical, the village
agnostic, toting volumes of Walt Whitman. . . as he saunters through
Minneota, Minnesota.”—Los Angeles Times |
Price:
$ 13.95
Binding: Paper
Availability In Stock: 304
immediately
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 2001
Size: 5.5”x8.5”
Genre: Nonfiction/Nonfiction/Nonfiction
Pages: 272
ISBN: 9781571312518
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