Bad Stories

“ Almond draws on everything from  The Grapes of Wrath   to the voting practices of his babysitter to dismantle the false narratives about American democracy .” —Cheryl Strayed, international-bestselling author of  Wild   Like a lot of Americans, Steve Almond spent the weeks after the 2016 election lying awake, in a state of dread and bewilderment. The problem wasn’t just the election, but the fact that nobody could explain, in any sort of coherent way, why America had electe