Welcome to Litsy!

This first part of this book jumps around a lot, but if you skip to chapter 10 there is some great writing on the issues facing rural ag communities, including: population loss, worldwide immigration, corporate farming practices, pollution and the urgent need for more sustainable solutions. If you want to better understand food, US politics, and climate; read this book.

The author, who is the editor of a very small Iowa newspaper, won a Pulitzer for editorial writing, and the book caught my attention because my mom grew up in this area of Iowa, but his writing style with the folksy tone and sentence fragments is killing me and I don't know if I can get through this book 😬

Very insightful writing about my parents‘ home town area in Iowa. Author won Pulitzer Prize for reporting on Big Ag interference in small town politics. The book chronicles the dynamics behind the changing economics for Midwest farming which matches dad‘s experiences. Through stories of various individuals, some being my cousins, uncles and grandparents, he succinctly captures POV/values unique to the region that are still present in my life.

These emails never get old.