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Price: 17€

In 2022, Stefanie Sargnagel reluctantly swaps her comfortable Viennese sofa for a plane ticket to the USA. She is to teach creative writing at a college in the middle of nowhere in Iowa. In the small town of Grinnell with its 8,000 inhabitants, there is nothing but endless cornfields.

Along for the ride is music legend Christiane Rösinger, and together they set out to explore the nothingness. They find overweight, friendly locals, traditional gender roles, giant supermarkets, incredible sausages and a jar full of pickled turkey gizzards.

Stefanie Sargnagel's view of the USA is as unmistakable as her writing: sarcastic, ruthlessly honest and yet full of sympathy, she brings us closer to rural America and gives a heart-warming account of the vital importance of female friendships.

Stefanie Sargnagel, born in 1986, studied painting in the class led by Daniel Richter at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, but spent more time at her day job in a call center. She has been a freelance writer since 2016 - and has been spending more time with her tax consultant ever since. She received the BKS Bank Audience Award in the 2016 Ingeborg Bachmann Prize competition.