Degraded Heartland by Maria Farland Halli's Picks NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A curmudgeonly

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A curmudgeonly professor journeys to a small town in the far north in this “incredibly fun journey through fae lands and dark magic” (NPR)

twenty-year-old Clara van Weiren is faced with an ill omen: a whale

In the wake of Thayer's loss

I’m filled with hope for a brighter future

what makes you different makes you dangerous

Degraded Heartland by Maria Farland Halli's Picks NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A curmudgeonlyHow did rural America come to be viewed as backward and inferior, and how did literary modernism respond to and critique this perception? What happens when rural Americalong romanticized in pastoral literaturebecomes associated with deficiency, degradation, and decline? Maria Farland's Degraded Heartland is the first critical study of US literary antipastoral, a mode that exposes the stark realities of rural poverty and ecological devastation while