· In Matthew Baker’s ‘Why Visit America,’ the U.S. is an absurd place, but also full of hope. By Melissa Holbrook Pierson. Aug. By Author: Melissa Holbrook Pierson. · "Matthew Baker's Why Visit America is at once deeply heartbroken by the state of our country and world and also deeply hopeful about what both could be. These stories critically examine the harms wrought by American xenophobia, misogyny, transphobia, and capitalism while also bearing an abiding, profound love for this planet and for its people. “Baker is a visionary. His wild future and parallel versions of America are cautionary, provocative, evocative, and revelatory. Uniting them all is the immutable human desire to be intimately connected.” — Katie Chase, author of Man And Wife “Why Visit America is an exhilarating, transformative read. From memory erasure as criminal justice reform to an epidemic of lost souls due to overpopulation, .
Why Visit America: Stories Aug 4, by Matthew Baker. (48) $ Equal parts speculative and satirical, the stories in Why Visit America form an exegesis of our current political predicament, while offering an eloquent plea for connection and hope. The citizens of Plainfield, Texas, have had it with the broke-down United States. Well, it might, and so it goes in the thirteen stories in Matthew Baker's brilliantly illuminating, incisive, and heartbreaking collection Why Visit America. The book opens with a seemingly traditional story in which the speculative element is extremely minimal—the narrator has a job that doesn't actually exist—a story that wouldn't seem. Why Visit America invites both analysis and interpretation, meaning and intent gained at the end of each story through a subtle meditation on our own selves and beliefs. In the story which closes our journey across and into America, Baker brings us back to known ground, to a city unmentioned hitherto, a place we have been waiting for.
Description. Welcome, dear visitor, to a proud and storied nation. When you put down this guidebook, look around you. A nation isn't land. A nation is people. Equal parts speculative and satirical, the stories in Matthew Baker's collection portray a world within touching distance of our own. This is an America riven by dilemmas confronting so. Why Visit America: Stories. By Matthew Baker. Henry Holt and Company. $; pages. So residents decide to secede from the United States and declare their town a new country, named. “Matthew Baker's stories are wild in all the best ways, but Why Visit America isn't just a triumph of weirdness—these stories use a variety of skewed lenses to offer smart critiques of the systems and beliefs humming through so much of American life. They also somehow manage to be, always, a ton of fun to read.”.
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