Dimensions
152 x 229 x 31mm
Bestselling editors Sean Wilsey and Matt Weiland have turned to 51 of our finest' funniest' and foremost writers to create a state by state celebration of our country: Jonathan Franzen on New York' Louise Erdrich on North Dakota' Dave Eggers on Illinois' Ann Patchett on Tennessee' Jhumpa Lahiri on Rhode Island--the list goes on. Inspired by the WPA guides of the 1930s' the Los Angeles Times describes State by State as "a helicopter ride' touching down on life in each state' sometimes traveling back decades' even as far back as the Native Americans who first called these mountains and valleys home. The WPA guides drew literal paths for their readers' but this is more subtle: You will find your own connections between North Carolina and North Dakota. It starts to become clear that how where we come from defines who we are is both intensely personal and ineffable' that it is a thing of memory' and it may come from the place that we have no right to call home but that we come to love. And odds are' reading State by State' that you'll fall for every state a little' even if they remain tremendously hard to explain."
