Degraded Heartland by Maria Farland Halli's Picks NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A curmudgeonly

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A curmudgeonly professor journeys to a small town in the far north in this “incredibly fun journey through fae lands and dark magic” (NPR)

and it may be too late

Gene has nearly everything he’s ever let himself dream of—that is

I’m filled with hope for a brighter future

in order to get away

Degraded Heartland by Maria Farland Halli's Picks NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A curmudgeonlyHow did rural America come to be viewed as backward and inferior, and how did literary modernism respond to and critique this perception? What happens when rural Americalong romanticized in pastoral literaturebecomes associated with deficiency, degradation, and decline? Maria Farland's Degraded Heartland is the first critical study of US literary antipastoral, a mode that exposes the stark realities of rural poverty and ecological devastation while