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Idyll Banter
Idyll Banter: Weekly Excursions to a Very Small Town | Chris Bohjalian
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In March 1986, while living in Brooklyn, Chris Bohjalian and his wife were cab-napped on a Saturday night and taken on a forty-five-minute joy ride in which the driver ignored all traffic lights and stop signs. Around midnight he deposited the young couple on a near-deserted street, where police officers were about to storm a crack house. Bohjalian and his wife were told to hit the ground for their 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 began chronicling life in that town in a wide variety of magazine essays and in his newspaper column, "Idyll Banter." These pieces, written weekly for twelve years and collected here for the first time, serve as a diary of both this writer's life and how America has been transformed in the last decade. Rich with idiosyncratic universals that come with being a parent, a child, and a spouse, Chris Bohjalian's personal observations are a reflection of our own common experience. "Chris Bohjalian is a terrific columnist—thoughtful and thought-provoking. Just like me! No, really, this guy is good." —Dave Barry, author of Boogers Are My Beat “The best book I’ve ever read about life in a contemporary village. There’s no doubt that Chris Bohjalian has established himself as one of America’s finest, most thoughtful, and most humane writers.” —Howard Frank Mosher From the Hardcover edition.
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Chris Bohjalian and his wife moved from Brooklyn, NY to Lincoln, a small town in Vermont, with a population under 1000. These essays follow the changing landscape of Vermont and small town life.

As I continue my daydreams of Vermont, I found these stories enjoyable and many touching.

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#ruralsetting #aprilbookshowers. Sometimes I think I would like to live in the middle of no where but every time I say it out loud my friends laugh uproariously. So I guess I am staying where I am and continuing to simply read about it.

night_shift It's not all that it's cracked up to be, but the lack of people and the quiet are nice. 7y
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