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Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The citizens of Plainfield, Texas have had it with the broke-down United States. So they vote to secede, rename themselves America in memory of our former country, and happily set themselves up to receive tourists from their closest neighbor: America. Couldn't happen? Well, it might, and so it goes in the thirteen stories in Matthew Baker's brilliantly illuminating, incisive, and heartbreaking collection WHY VISIT AMERICA"--
Author
Series
World made by hand volume 3
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2014
Language
English
Description
"Following the catastrophes of the twenty-first century--the pandemics, the environmental disaster, the end of oil, the ensuing chaos--people are doing whatever they can to get by and pursuing a simpler and sometimes happier existence. In little Union Grove, the townspeople are preparing for Christmas. Without the consumerist shopping frenzy that dogged the holidays of the previous age, the season has become a time to focus on family and loved ones....
Author
Series
World made by hand volume 2
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
A new age has begun on Earth. Oil is no longer a resource. Some parts of America are nuclear wastelands. Civilization has devolved into a constant struggle for food, water, and shelter.
In the tiny hamlet of Union Grove, New York, the US government is little more than a rumor. Wars are being fought over dwindling resources and illness is a constant presence. Bandits roam the countryside, preying on the weak and a sinister cult threatens the town's...
Author
Series
World made by hand volume 4
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2016
Language
English
Description
The residents of Union Grove, New York, struggle to get through early spring after a local tycoon halts the Hudson River trade route.
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