English | 2022 | ISBN: 1640093303 | 352 pages | True EPUB | 2.75 MB
An exploration of American ideas of utopia through the lens of one millennial’s quest to live a more communal life under late-stage capitalism
Told in a series of essays that balance memoir with fieldwork,Heaven Is a Place on Earthis an idiosyncratic study of American utopian experiments-from the Shakers to the radical faerie communes of Short Mountain to the Bronx rebuilding movement-through the lens of one woman’s quest to create a more communal life in a time of unending economic and social precarity.
When Adrian Shirk’s father-in-law has a stroke and loses his ability to speak and walk, she and her husband-both adjuncts in their midtwenties-become his primary caretakers. The stress of these new responsibilities, coupled with navigating America’s broken health-care system and ordinary twenty-first-century financial insecurity, propels Shirk into an odyssey through the history and present of…
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