Apocalypse, Darling (Machete)

Synopsis

Set In The Steel Mill Regions Of Chicago And In Northwest Indiana, The Story Centers On Borich?s Return To A Decimated Landscape For A Misbegotten Wedding In Which Her Spouse?s Father Marries His High School Sweetheart. The Book Is A Lilting Journey Into An Ill-fated Moment, Where Families Attempt To Find Communion In Tense Gathering Spaces And Across Their Most Formative Disappointments. Borich Tells The Story Of The Industrial Heartland That Produced The Steel That Made American Cities, But Also One Of The Most Toxic Environmental Sites In The World.--page 2 Of Cover. Wasteland Oasis, Indiana 2008 -- Byway, Skyway, Illinois/indiana 2008 -- His Not Daughter, Minneapolis 1987 -- Trouble, Chicago 1985 -- Best Man, Indiana 2008 -- Pink Lady, Minneapolis 2008 -- Swede In Our Shower, Minneapolis 1995 -- What's Present In Time Future I, Chicago 2015 -- Annihilation Pending, Minneapolis 1988 -- Visible Grace, Calumet, Illinois/indiana 1950-present -- Enter The Chapel, Indiana 2008 -- The Cruelest Month, Post-industrial North 2008 -- Dune-ality, Indiana 1977 -- The Apocalypse, Darling, Interior Landscapes 1959- -- The Bee-u-tee-full Old Country, Indiana 2008 -- Women's Work, North Suburban Chicago 1988 -- Swedish Italian, New Jersey/michigan/illinois 1960s -- Don't Ask Don't Tell, Interstate 1980-2008 -- The Children's Crimes, According To The Father, As Imagined By The Daughter-in-law He Does Not Acknowledge, Minneapolis 2008 -- What's Present In Time Future Ii, Chicago 2015 -- The Violet Hour, Indiana 2008 -- The We Who, Indiana 2008 -- Unreal City, Minneapolis 1987-yesterday -- Lilacs Out Of A Dead Land, Indiana 2008 -- Laquearia, Indiana 2008 -- O City, City, Minneapolis 2007 -- Burningburning, Illinois Or Indiana Mill Country, 20th Or 21st Century -- The Tattoo Merchant, Inside An Inaccurate Indiana Fantasy 2008 -- The Golf Course Nuptials, As Imprecisely Recalled With Undisguised Bias, And Without Approval From Her Spouse, By The Daughter-in-law The Groom Has Not Yet Acknowledged, Indiana 2008 -- Shantih, Indiana 2009 -- Post-nuptial, Indiana Golf Course 2008 -- Post-apocalypse, The Rain, Indiana 2008 -- Post-mortem, Re-migrations 2008 -- Post-traumatic, These Fragments We Shore 2008 -- What's Present In Time Future Iii, Chicago 2015 -- Post-photographic, The Photographer's Reformation 2008 -- Post-industrial Dunes, Memory And Desire 1976 And Now. Barrie Jean Borich. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 87-90).