
By The Iowa Sea: A Memoir
An exquisitely written memoir about the heartbreaks and ecstasies of marriage and fatherhood by a talented new writer from the University of Iowa MFA program.The anticipated debut of an original American voice, By the Iowa Sea is a wrenching, unsentimental account of the heartbreaks and ecstasies of marriage, fatherhood, and small-town life in the Midwest.After his first cross-country motorcycle t...
Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: Scribner; First Edition edition (March 6, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1451636059
ISBN-13: 978-1451636055
Product Dimensions: 6 x 1 x 9 inches
Amazon Rank: 1905113
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“I ordered the book, By The Iowa Sea, after listening to Joe Blair's podcast on The Nervous Breakdown. We also have a son named Michael with autism. I flew through the book and read it in one weekend. I enjoyed Blair's prose and thoughts about marriag...”
ip, Joe Blair believed he had discovered his true calling. He would travel. He would never cave in to convention. He would never settle down.Fifteen years later, Joe finds himself living in Iowa, working as an air-conditioning repairman and spending his free time cleaning gutters, taxiing his children, and contemplating marital infidelity. “Our history,” he writes, “gains more weight day by day. And the future seems more and more unlikely to be anything cool at all.” Joe believes it would take an act of great faith or courage to revive in him the passion and promise that once seemed so easy to come by.What it takes, he discovers, is a disaster. When the Iowa River floods, transforming the familiar streets and manicured lawns of his neighborhood into a terrible and beautiful sea, he begins to question the path that led him to this place.Exquisitely observed and lyrically recounted, this is a compelling and often humorous account of an ordinary man’s struggle to live an extraordinary life. Joe Blair lays bare the moving, hopeful story of a river that becomes an ocean and a love that is lost and found again, by the Iowa Sea.
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