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From Rob Roensch, the author of The World and the Zoo, comes a new coming-of-age story as powerful as the Southern Plains landscape that surrounds it: inspired by the 2018 Oklahoma teachers' strike.

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"""In the Morning, the City Is the Prairie is an achingly funny and sad read. Seen through the eyes of college dropout Matt Bennet, Oklahoma City is surreal: spiked with skyscrapers and paved with squat chain stores that grip a dying earth beneath a boundless sky. Roensch's astonishing, poetic prose kept me reading for the surprise of each sentence."" -Chris Harding Thornton, author of Pickard County Atlas and Little Underworld ""Set during a recent, turbulent spring in Oklahoma City, Rob Roensch's engrossing new novel drops us into the rich, quirky mind of Matt, a college dropout/reluctant Costco cashier who's trying to figure out what and who is worth fighting for as his family-and the entire country, it seems-falls apart around him. Searching, funny, and wise, In the Morning, the City Is the Prairie is both a moving coming-of-age novel and an urgent investigation into what will actually be required if we're to remain hopeful in this beautiful, broken world."" -Mark Rader, author of The Wanting Life"

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Rob Roensch is the author of the novella The World and the Zoo (Outpost19) and the story collection The Wildflowers of Baltimore (Salt). He lives in Oklahoma City and teaches at Oklahoma City University.

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