"A must read" -- Library Journal "Though slim and unassuming, the 20 essays within pack a punch--not the sort that gives you an immediate bruise, but one that leaves you strangely sore for days, wondering what it was that hit you." --Kerry Cardoza, Chicago Reader "Huber is a masterful essayist. I mean--holy shit. I felt this book in my bones. The deeply felt essays in Love and Industry feature hard love and loud music, radiation poisoning in our bodies and our land, and aching questions about the places that make us ask: How do I get out of here? and Can I ever stay away?" --Megan Stielstra, author of The Wrong Way to Save Your Life "Sonya Huber has written a glorious midwestern road trip for the personal essay set. From Illinois's cornfields, to Gary's industrial warehouses, to Minneapolis's anarchist meetings, to Chicago's dark glass bouquet, these finely composed wanderings about love, trouble, home, and recovery testify to the kinetic bond between location and human spirit." --Barrie Jean Borich, author of Apocalypse Darling , Body Geographic , and My Lesbian Husband "Huber presents home without home clichés, a home that is complicated by generational trauma, by inequalities and exclusion, a home that represents our corrosive culture and the distrust that has seeped into our lives. These essays deliver the complexities of a place where love and hate are interchangeable, where discomfort has become a type of comfort.

" --Ira Sukrungruang, author of Southside Buddhist "These essays are daring acts of emotional cartography that reveal the Midwest to be much more than glacially-ironed plains and withering rust belt towns, but a place where a rare sort of awareness, humility, and intrepidness is born." --David Griffith, author of A Good War Is Hard to Find: The Art of Violence in America.