{"product_id":"indiana-indiana-9781566891448","title":"Indiana  Indiana","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67932161015861,"sku":"ByrdShop_1566891442","price":65.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781566891448.jpg?v=1794220045","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/indiana-indiana-9781566891448","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}