Wish You Were Here

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Wish You Were Here is written by Zachary Michael Jack and published by American Midwest/Truman State University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1612481701 (ISBN 10) and 9781612481708 (ISBN 13).

This book offers a clear-eyed yet tender look at life in the modern Midwest from the perspective of a seventh-generation ruralite. Championing the romance of wide-open spaces in a rapidly urbanizing world, Zachary Michael Jack challenges the stereotypes of rural and small-town midwestern life in a well-grounded and deeply felt counter-narrative of love and longing sustained in communities where young and old alike plant roots. In essays whose settings encompass the diversity of the Heartland -- from wooded hills to verdant croplands, from tightly knit small towns to booming suburbs -- Jack considers how growing up country helped shape his life and the lives of his ancestors, inviting readers to reflect on the wellspring of connections between place and personality, demographics and destiny, at work in their own lives.