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By the Iowa Sea : a memoir / Joe Blair.

by Blair, Joe, 1962-

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Scribner, 2012.

Blair, Joe, 1962-

Husbands -- Biography.

American essays -- 21st century.

Middle West -- Biography.

9781451636062 (2013 Scribner pbk.)

9781451636055 (hc.)

1451636059 (hc.)

1st Scribner hardcover ed.

280 p. ; 24 cm.

"A wrenching, unsentimental account of the heartbreaks and ecstasies of marriage, fatherhood, and small-town Midwestern life. After his first cross-country motorcycle trip, Joe Blair believed he had discovered his calling: he would travel; he would never cave in to convention; he would never settle down. Fifteen years later, he 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. When the Iowa River floods, transforming the familiar streets of his small town into a terrible and beautiful sea, Joe 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"--Provided by publisher.

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