{"product_id":"9781639822096","title":"Brooding Upon the Waters: A Memoir of Farming, Fishing, and Failure in America's Lost Landscape","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen thirty years of untreated bipolar disorder left his father fighting for his life, Howard Schaap began to wonder how this man had fallen so far-from Minnesota's Young Farmer of the Year to financial failure in the farm crisis to a bed in the neurology wing of Mayo Clinic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBrooding Upon the Waters\u003c\/em\u003e is Howard Schaap's memoir-at once deeply compassionate and searingly honest-of his father's anguished journey. In his search for answers, Howard looks first to the landscape itself, where hard-luck fishing trips to the mud lakes of the tallgrass prairie mirrored his father's dark moods and darkening theology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut there is also local history, where his father's fall from grace, his manic decisions, and his political swing-not simply from moderate Republican to fervent populist, but \"from someone broad-minded and warm-hearted to someone narrow and bitter\"-have a precedent in American letters and history: Midwest settler Charles Ingalls, \"Pa\" in the famous \u003cem\u003eLittle House on the Prairie \u003c\/em\u003ebooks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBrooding Upon the Waters\u003c\/em\u003e recreates the stark beauty and haunting isolation of growing up on a failing family farm in the 1980s and 1990s. Along the way, Howard Schaap grapples with how these forces-as disparate as distorted theology and short-sighted financial greed-complicate his own struggle to remain loyal to the place he has always called home.\u003cem\u003e Brooding Upon the Waters\u003c\/em\u003e recounts not only a mental health crisis but also a crisis of the American Dream in the Upper Midwest, America's lost landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Slant Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43086473887805,"sku":"9781639822096","price":38.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9781639822096_p0.jpg?v=1775301804","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9781639822096","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}