J. Ryan Stradal
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Born
in Waconia, Minnesota, The United States
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September 2008
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Kitchens of the Great Midwest
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2015
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The Lager Queen of Minnesota
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2019
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Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
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2023
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All About Lulu: A Novel
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2008
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California Prose Directory 2014: New Writing from The Golden State
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2014
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Midwest farm life in the 1980s gets an inimitable revision through the eyes of the brilliant and unsettling Fareown sisters. Ambitious and gorgeously written, this insightful, provocative novel will be like nothing else you'll read this year. ...more | |
“After decades away from the Midwest, she’d forgotten that bewildering generosity was a common regional tic.”
― Kitchens of the Great Midwest
― Kitchens of the Great Midwest
“When Lars first held her, his heart melted over her like butter on warm bread, and he would never get it back. When mother and baby were asleep in the hospital room, he went out to the parking lot, sat in his Dodge Omni, and cried like a man who had never wanted anything in his life until now.”
― Kitchens of the Great Midwest
― Kitchens of the Great Midwest
“When you see a man falling off a ladder above you, Edith believed, you don't envision your arms breaking. You just hold them out.”
― The Lager Queen of Minnesota
― The Lager Queen of Minnesota
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“Well, the vast majority of people don't steal to get ahead. A lot of people work their way up from nothing without stealing."
"I don't think a lot of people work their way up from nothing, ever. People like you want to believe it happens all the time. But it really doesn't.”
― The Lager Queen of Minnesota
"I don't think a lot of people work their way up from nothing, ever. People like you want to believe it happens all the time. But it really doesn't.”
― The Lager Queen of Minnesota
“Why? So you can still qualify for assistance? Your family is gaming the system?"
"No." Diana had always hated when people said this about her family. The bosses who made her dad list a payroll company as his employer, they gamed the system. The assholes who convinced her parents to take out both a second mortgage and a HELOC in 2006 gamed the system. The employers who would never give Edith enough hours for benefits gamed the system. But ask a lot of people, and they'd tell you it's people like her grandma who game the system. They'd tell you that an old woman who's worked hard every day of her life and still struggles to get by is a malignant vacuum for their personal tax dollars, and a blight on their lives as free Americans. "We're just trying to live.”
― The Lager Queen of Minnesota
"No." Diana had always hated when people said this about her family. The bosses who made her dad list a payroll company as his employer, they gamed the system. The assholes who convinced her parents to take out both a second mortgage and a HELOC in 2006 gamed the system. The employers who would never give Edith enough hours for benefits gamed the system. But ask a lot of people, and they'd tell you it's people like her grandma who game the system. They'd tell you that an old woman who's worked hard every day of her life and still struggles to get by is a malignant vacuum for their personal tax dollars, and a blight on their lives as free Americans. "We're just trying to live.”
― The Lager Queen of Minnesota
“Money allows people to survive their mistakes, she knew from having observed that phenomenon from a distance, and people like her were fucked.”
― The Lager Queen of Minnesota
― The Lager Queen of Minnesota
“When you see a man falling off a ladder above you, Edith believed, you don't envision your arms breaking. You just hold them out.”
― The Lager Queen of Minnesota
― The Lager Queen of Minnesota