Haymaker / / Adam Schuitema.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Schuitema, Adam,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Switchgrass Books
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (300 p.) :; 1 illustration

In a political culture infused with debates about personal liberties, the role of government, and even the definition of "freedom" itself, Haymaker tells the story of an isolated Michigan town that becomes the flashpoint for some of the principal ideological debates of our day. When a libertarian organization selects the town as its flagship community, hundreds of its members migrate and settle within the town's borders. The resulting clash with local townspeople is violent and impassioned, even as the line that divides the two sides increasingly blurs.The story follows characters on both of these sides: an eccentric millionaire known as The Man in White, who is still viewed as an outsider even after living in Haymaker for thirty years; a policewoman trained in hostage and suicide negotiations who questions raising children in this new environment; a teenage girl devoted to basketball and her desire to leave home, who has a close but complicated relationship with her uncle, a local who fistfights outsiders in an annual challenge; a libertarian PR expert, just hoping to calm the storm; and the town's mayor, who owns a local diner and is raising a baby daughter as her husband becomes tragically unhinged. A town first settled by lumberjacks, prostitutes, and roughnecks, Haymaker's present becomes as volatile as its past.Haymaker is a story about the failure of best intentions and the personal freedom of individuals to do good or to harm. This witty and politically charged novel will certainly appeal to Michiganders and Midwesterners, but will also interest those looking for an entertaining fictional account of a situation that could plausibly play out in one of the many small, remote towns in the country.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Prologue -- Year one. -- Chapter 1 Friday, July II -- Chapter 2 Friday, July 11 -- Chapter 3 Saturday, July 19 -- Chapter 4 Friday, August 1 -- Chapter 5 Saturday, August 2 -- Chapter 6 Thursday, August 7 -- Chapter 7 Saturday, August 9 -- Chapter 8 Tuesday, August 12 -- Chapter 9 Saturday, September 6 -- Chapter 10 Saturday, September 6 -- Chapter 11 Saturday, September 6 -- Chapter 12 Sunday, September 7 -- Chapter 13 Monday, September 15 -- Chapter 14 Monday, September 29 -- Chapter 15 Monday, October 13 -- Chapter 16 Friday, October 31 -- Year two. -- Chapter 1 Sunday, January 11 -- Chapter 2 Saturday, January 24 -- Chapter 3 Tuesday, February 3 -- Chapter 4 Tuesday, February 10 -- Chapter 5 Saturday, February 21 -- Chapter 6 Friday, March 13 -- Chapter 7 Wednesday, April 1 -- Chapter 8 Thursday, April2 -- Chapter 9 Friday, .April 3 -- Chapter 10 Thursday, May 21 -- Chapter 11 Thursday, June 4 -- Chapter 12 Saturday, July 4 -- Chapter 13 Monday, July 13 -- Chapter 14 Monday,, August 10 -- Chapter 15 Saturday; September 12 -- Chapter 16 Wednesday, October 21 -- Chapter 17 Saturday, October 31 -- Chapter 18 Friday, November 27 -- Chapter 19 Friday, December 25 -- Year Three. -- Chapter 1 Monday, January 4 -- Chapter 2 Saturday; January 9 -- Chapter 3 Monday, February 15 -- Chapter 4 Sunday, March 7 -- Chapter 5 Saturday, April 10 -- Chapter 6 Tuesday, May 4 -- Chapter 7 Friday, May 7 -- Chapter 8 Monday, June 21 -- Chapter 9 Wednesday, June 30 -- Chapter 10 Sunday, July 4 -- Chapter 11 Wednesday, August 11 -- Chapter 12 Saturday, September 11 -- Chapter 13 Monday, October 18 -- Chapter 14 Sunday, October 31 -- Chapter 15 Tuesday, November 2 -- Chapter 16 Saturday, November 20 -- Chapter 17 Tuesday November 30 -- Chapter 18 Wednesday, December 1 -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments