Potatoes on the Moon
I Spent a Week Probing the Alien Landscape of Idaho
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Publisher Description
What do most people think of Idaho? Well, see, that’s the problem—they don’t think of Idaho. Despite its breathtaking natural beauty and the fact that it's crammed to the gills with eccentrics and free-thinkers, Idaho may as well be the moon as far as the rest of America is concerned.
Jim Goad recently spent a week in Idaho mingling with State Troopers, political extremists, collegiate progressives, and heartbreakingly friendly locals. Spending most of the week in the wilderness allowed him to examine one of the most pervasive yet ignored forms of cultural bigotry—the endless disdain that "urban supremacists" have for rural people. In this case, the countryside wins by a landslide.
Customer Reviews
Goad's ode to Idaho
I can say without any doubt in my mind that this is Jim Goad's happiest book. It's slightly jarring to read him not picking and punching apart humanity's myriad hypocrisies and instead really enjoying himself on a weeklong trip through Idaho. In many ways it's a quick, lovely and life affirming read.
Essentially a brief travelogue, Mr. Goad paints an endearing picture of the less populated parts of Idaho that would make any hardened misanthrope want to pack up and hit the spud state's lonely roads. A state-sized slice of delicious normalcy in an increasingly vulgar and vainglorious continent.