Chemical Valley (ebook)

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Oil-soaked and swamp-born, the bruised optimism of Hueberts stories offer sincere appreciation of the beauty of our wilted, wheezing world.From city-dwelling preppers to long term care nurses, dishwashers to professional hockey enforcers to refinery workers, Chemical Valleys caring and carefully-wrought stories cultivate rich human emotional worlds in all the dankness of our bio-chemical animacy. Full-hearted, laced throughout with bruised optimism and a sincere appreciation of the profound beauty of our wilted, wheezing world,Chemical Valleydoes not shy away from urgent modern questionsthe distribution of toxicity, environmental racism, the future of technology, the climate, and the human bodybut it grounds these anxieties in vivid and often humorous intricacies of its characters lives. These are stories about big questions, but they are not scared of sentiment. Swamp-wrought, they run wild with vital energy, tilt and teeter into crazed and delirious loves.Praise forChemical ValleyBy delving into the lives of a range of characters, feral hockey players, grieving shift-workers, and love-sick teenagers, Huebert asks an urgent questionhow to survive in a world that values chemicals and capitalism over human life? Lively, affecting, tragic, careful, and shot-through with humor, the stories seeped under my skin. I wont forget them any time soon.Claire Cameron, author ofThe Last Neanderthal