How to Love in a World Like This

<p>When Morgan and Arthur trade city life for a small Illinois farm their dream quickly unravels among hostile neighbors and a depleted land. The discovery of a corpse in their woods strains their marriage to a breaking point. As Morgan retreats to her old life in Chicago and Arthur schemes to salvage the farm and win her back the couple is drawn into a deeper conspiracy. Ultimately they face an ethical dilemma that might change the course of their lives. Darkly comic and sharply observant this novel explores love and redemption in a fractured America blending psychology and suspense in an intensely gratifying story.</p><p></p><p><em>How to Love in a World Like This</em> continues from the story Downriver which won the Chris O'Malley Prize for Fiction and was published in <em>The Madison Review</em>. It is the second of Kipling Knox's Middling books after <em>Under the Moon in Illinois.</em></p><p></p><p>PRAISE FOR... HOW TO LOVE IN A WORLD LIKE THIS</p><p></p><p>A triumphant return to Middling the fictional town from <em>Under the Moon in Illinois</em>. Part mystery part ghost story part shrewd social commentary and all love story <em>How to Love in a World Like This </em>is a Midwestern Gothic masterpiece.</p><p>- Elaine Palencia</p><p></p><p>There is something magical about Knox's writing haunting in its lyricism. Love is a form of magic and his wonderfully realized characters remind us that magic is in all of us no matter how broken we think we are. A remarkable beautiful novel.</p><p>- Frank Chadwick</p><p></p><p>In this crafty novel we watch events through two sets of eyes each with a story of its own. But gradually we realize this is the larger human story we all are drifting in. Knox delivers what literary fiction offers at its best: a note of hope a fragile sense of possibility a glimpse of light we can<em> </em>believe.</p><p>- Tamim Ansary</p>