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You'll Like it Here

โœ Scribed by Ashton Politanoff

Book ID
111057195
Publisher
Deep Vellum Publishing
Tongue
en-US
Weight
8 MB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781628974317

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โœฆ Synopsis

You'll Like it Here is a haunting bricolage, divided into three parts, that excavates the forgotten history of Redondo Beach in the early 1900's through old news clippings, advertisements, recipes and other ephemera that speak to the ills of male stoicism, industrialization and capitalism, and environmental displacement. Ashton used digital archives from the Redondo Reflex and other city adjacent newspapers as the basis for his surrealist account, masterfully tracing this larger shift away from coastal maritime repose in the wake of the Spanish Flu, the Great Depression, and World War II through momentary fragments that feel as real and palpable as they do transient, mythological, and strangely reminiscent of our current times.

Formally, You'll Like it Here works in conversation with Michael Ondaatje's The Collected Works of Billy the Kid , Maggie Nelson's Bluets , Amina Cain's Indelicacy , and Kathryn Scanlan's Aug 9 Fog. The...

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