Licking the Taboo (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

In the run-up to the 2010 elections, a divorce and midlife crisis steers William Lang Jr., a forty-one-year-old freelance journalist and diehard New Yorker, away from the big urban world in which he has always lived to a small rural one that is culturally unfamiliar.William takes on an assumed identity, Jack Stone, his conservative alter ego, and heads for the road. He settles in for a year among the conservative residents of Littleton, a one-street town in upstate New York. Except for the occasional letter back home, he cuts himself off from his former life and throws himself headlong into the new one he plans to experience and write about.A journey that begins with preconceived notions about those who live in "Small Town," America, careens in an unexpected direction when William disregards the cultural taboos that keep us apart and is drawn into a relationship with Sue Ellen, a townie, turning his world upside down and causing him to reconsider what's at the heart of the nation's cultural divide.