if you lived here you’d be home by now. Copyright © 2019 by Christopher Ingraham . All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
first edition
Portions of chapter 1 have previously appeared in a different form in the Washington Post story “I Called This Place ‘America’s Worst Place to Live.’ Then I Went There.”
Portions of chapter 5 have previously appeared in a different form in the Washington Post story “I Ordered a Box of Crickets from the Internet and It Went About as Well as You’d Expect.”
Portions of chapter 8 have previously appeared in a different form in the Washington Post story “Why These Rural, White, Gun-Owning Guys Didn’t Vote for Trump.”
Portions of chapter 3, chapter 5, and the epilogue have previously appeared in a different form in the Washington Post story “What Life Is Really Like in ‘America’s Worst Place to Live.’”
Cover design by Joanne O’Neill
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Digital Edition SEPTEMBER 2019 ISBN: 978-0-06-286149-8
Print ISBN: 978-0-06-286147-4