You'll Like it Here

By Ashton Politanoff ISBN: 9781628974034 Publication Date: 9/6/2022 Description You'll Like it Here is a haunting bricolage, excavating the forgotten history of early 1900’s Redondo Beach through old news clippings, advertisements, recipes, and other ephemera that speak to the ills of male stoicism, industrialization, capitalism, and environmental displacement. Ashton used digital archives from the Redondo Reflex and other city-adjacent newspapers as the basis for his surrealist account, masterfully tracing this larger shift away from coastal maritime repose in the wake of the Spanish Flu, the Great Depression, and World War II through momentary fragments that feel as real and palpable as they do transient, mythological, and strangely reminiscent of our current times. Formally, You'll Like it Here works in conversation with Michael Ondaatje’s The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, Maggie Nelson’s Bluets, Amina Cain’s Indelicacy, and Kathryn Scanlan’s Aug 9 Fog. The novel also embraces a