Download Idyll Banter: Weekly Excursions to a Very Small Town (Unabridged Selections) AudioBook Free
In March 1986, while living in Brooklyn, Chris Bohjalian and his wife were cab-napped on the Saturday night and taken on the forty-five-minute joy ride where the driver ignored all traffic lights and stop signs. Around midnight he deposited the young couple on the near-deserted street, where police officers were going to storm a crack house. Bohjalian and his wife were told to hit the ground for his or her own protection. While lying on the pavement, Bohjalian's wife suggested that perhaps it was time to move to New England.
Months later they traded in their co-op in Brooklyn for a century-old Victorian house in Lincoln, Vermont (population 975), and Bohjalian commenced chronicling life in that town in a multitude of magazine essays and in his newspaper column, "Idyll Banter."
These pieces, written weekly for twelve years and collected here for the very first time, serve as a diary of both this writer's life and exactly how America has been transformed within the last decade. Rich with idiosyncratic universals that come with being a parent, a kid, and a spouse, Chris Bohjalian's personal observations are a reflection of our very own common experience.
"Chris Bohjalian is a terrific columnist—thoughtful and thought-provoking. Exactly like me! No, really, he is good." —Dave Barry, writer of Boogers Are My Beat
“The very best book I’ve ever read about life in a modern day village. There’s no doubt that Chris Bohjalian has generated himself as one of America’s finest, most thoughtful, and most humane writers.”
—Howard Frank Mosher
From the Hardcover edition.
