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"NY Times" Bestselling Author Chuck Klosterman's First Novel Somewhere in North Dakota, there is a town called Owl that's not there. Disco has ended, but punk never happened. They don't have cable. They don't genuinely have pop culture, unless you count grain prices and alcoholism. People work hard and then they die. They hate the federal government and impregnate teenage girls. But that isn't nearly as awful as it sounds; in fact, sometimes it's perfect. Mitch Hrlicka lives in Owl. He plays high school football and worries about his weirdness, or lack thereof. Julia Rabia just moved to Owl. She gets free booze and falls deeply in love with a self-loathing bison farmer who listens to "Goats Head Soup." Horace Jones has resided in Owl for seventy-three years. He consumes a lot of coffee, thinks about his dead wife, and understands the truth. Each of them know each other completely, except that they've never met. Such as a colder, Reagan-era version of "The Last Picture Show" fused with "Friday Night Lights," Chuck Klosterman's "Downtown Owl" is the unpretentious, darkly comedic story of how it feels to exist in a community where rural mythology and violent reality are just about the same thing. Loaded with detail and unified by the (very real) blizzard, it's technically about certain people in a certain place at a certain time...but it's really in regards to a problem. And the challenge is this: Exactly what does it mean to be always a normal person? And there is absolutely no answer. However in "Downtown Owl," what matters more is the method that you ask the question.

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