The All-American Industrial Motel

This volatile memoir from Doug Crandell weaves a darkly comic and thoroughly heartbreaking coming-of-age tale set in 1990 as the author is about to graduate from college. With very few job prospects and in need of tuition money, he joins his father working at a ceiling tile factory in tiny Lagro, Indiana. As his father moves headlong into a midlife crisiscomplete with a bad toupee and a penchant for drinking on the jobCrandell’s mother struggles with depression and talks in the th