To heal and entertain is one, but also presumably to resist, but it depends on the writer. It’s early yet, right? Literature has a lot of roles. What will be the role of literature in Trump’s America? And these small towns that aren’t sustainable in a capitalist economy are left wondering how do they fit into the world. When that happened, people were left without a way of living, so there wasn’t much to do besides go work for Walmart or not work at all. What happened to Iowa was family farms collapsed in the phases of giant acquisitions. And that was one thing I sort of wanted to show, they’re people with the same basic humanistic concerns and possibly buried silos, as anyplace else. I think people have this assumption that if you’re not near the humming centers of arts culture, then you must be conservative. Especially people who live on the coasts probably think Iowa’s a very conservative place. This group, when you’re talking about Iowa, is a group that gets routinely caricatured every four years. What do you think is misunderstood about this group? The characters in this book fit the demographic that people have talked about a lot since the election: white people in the middle of the country who are struggling to make ends meet.
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