River Bend Chronicle: The Junkification of a Boyhood Idyll Amid the Curious Glory of Urban Iowa

by Ben Miller and Ben Miller

Shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing

From a striking talent with keen powers of observation comes this evocation of an eccentric family's tangled connections--between themselves, an unlikely cast of locals, and a seldom-documented urban Iowa, one not of cows and cornstalks but of thrift stores, TV dinners, and bridges spanning the muddy sprawl of the Mississippi River.

By turns uplifting...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0984900004
• ISBN13: 9780984900008
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Lookout Books
• Length: 460 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.5" x 7.5"