Recs if you like The Lighthouse Road (Eide Family, #1)...

"What a midwesterner he was, a thoroughly unhip guy with his heart in the usual place, on the sleeve, in plain sight." — Charles Baxter, The Feast of Love

Fiction that embodies the experience of being Midwestern and full of big feelings: depression, yearning, being lost in a cornfield

Let’s hear it for the flyover states! Fictional books set in the Upper Midwest. Apparently we’re only worthy of being flown over but those who know, know.

Ongoing list of books by Minnesota authors or about Minnesota, the best state in the union.