Indiana Indiana

About this book

"In the center of the county in the center of Indiana in the heart of the country and down a long dark hallway " Noah Summers a simple man who has led a far from simple life sits before a roaring fire drifting in and out of sleep. On this dark and lovely winter night he will sift through the shards of his memories trying to make sense of a lifetime of psychic visions and his familys tumultuous history on an Indiana farmstead. As a young man Noah a true innocent fell deeply in love with Opal a young woman with a penchant for flames. Once married the couple move into their own house on his familys farm. After forty-two idyllic days Opal is overcome by her fascination with fire and institutionalized. Though Noah embarks on a journey to save her he cannot and must instead rely on her letters his memories and the strength of his family to sustain him. Written in a masterful elegiac style that echoes Faulkner and Steinbeck Indiana Indiana is a compellingly beautiful and surreal Midwestern saga firmly grounded in an Indiana landscape populated by farmers drifters sheriffs and ministers and overflowing with musical saws family bibles stuffed with flowers and appliances rusting in the fields. "As everyone who read The Impossibly knows Laird Hunts ability to create a sense of otherworldliness is astonishing. Indiana Indiana resonates for miles."Amy Fusselman author of The Pharmacists Mat Laird Hunt former United Nations press officer and -current faculty member at Naropa University has lived in Singapore Tokyo London Paris The Hague and on a farm in Indiana. He is the author of the novel The Impossibly and his writing has appeared both here and abroad in many publications including Grand Street Fence Conjunctions Ploughshares and Zoum Zoum. He and his wife poet Eleni Sikelianos live in Boulder Colorado.