Denison, Iowa : Searching for the Soul of America Through the Secrets of a Midwest Town (Paperback)

from kaitanya64

The author, who won a Pulitzer Prize for a previous book, sets out to explore the changes in a small rural town that sees its homogenous community descended from Western European immigrants, transformed as immigrants from South and Central America move in to take jobs at local packing plants, and...

from mbergman

This is a rather bizarre (to my taste) book with no linear development, something along the lines of Stephen Bloom's book about Postville, though I think this author made a greater effort to actually listen to the voices of the people he was observing as he lived in the town for a year. Denison i...

from hereandthere

I heard it said once that there are only two stories: man comes to a town and man goes on a journey. Maharidge drops himself in the deep middle of "flyover" country, a town of 8000, Denison, Iowa, and explores it for a full year in all its warmth and pettiness and despair and sexual frustration a...

from hereandthere

I heard it said once that there are only two stories: man comes to a town and man goes on a journey. Maharidge drops himself in the deep middle of "flyover" country, a town of 8000, Denison, Iowa, and explores it for a full year in all its warmth and pettiness and despair and sexual frustration a...