Full Description
Meghan Daum's unforgettable debut novel brings her sharp wit and courageous social commentary to the story of Lucinda Trout, a New York television reporter in search of greener pastures. Moving to the slower-paced, friendly, and vastly more affordable Midwestern town of Prairie City, Lucinda zealously creates a series of televised reports for her New York audience about her newfound quality of life. But when Lucinda falls for eccentric local Mason Clay, her naÏvetÉ about the real world leads her down an unexpected path, where she encounters, among other things, a drafty old farmhouse filled with children, an ever-growing menagerie of farm animals, and the harshest winter the region has seen in twenty years. In other words, simplicity just isn't as simple as it is cracked up to be, and "quality of life," Lucinda learns, is much more complicated than she ever imagined.
Contents
Foreword
Open Arms, Open Minds
Alternative Lifestyle Alert
A Serious, More Humanitarian Direction
The Lay of the Land
A Sociocultural Analysis of the Margin of Error
Rode Hard and Put Away Wet
How to Throw a Barn Dance for Under $300
The Hidden Benefits of Tanning
Today's Word Is Glamoricious
The Guy in the Clouds
Embrace, Empathize, Empower
The Margin Widens
One Year Later
Acknowledgments
An Interview with Meghan Daum
A Note on the Author
