The Heart Can Be Filled Anywhere On Earth

The author of Eccentric Islands and Coming Home Crazy sends us a postcard from home, investigating—through the lens of small-town life—what community means to us and the rigid definitions we give to "success" and "failure."

Growing up, Bill Holm could define failure easily; it was "to die in Minneota." But when he returned to his hometown ("a very small dot on the ghost of an ocean of grass") twenty years later, he began to uncover its lost histories and to discover more of himself and of our time. By stepping out of the mainstream into what others regard as a backwater, Holm began to question the pace of our culture and how, in the rush to get ahead, we've lost our roots.

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