Land of Destiny

Land of Destiny: Review by Lindy West

Posted on Mar 9, 2011 by Lindy West

There is a city in southwestern Ontario where most of the women are widows. I mean, I’m exaggerating, I haven’t done any actual math here, but based on the anecdotes in Land of Destiny—long, tearful lists of husbands, brothers, fathers, uncles, lungs, livers, loves destroyed by cancer—“most” is a piece of poetic license I’m willing to stand behind. 

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May 24, 2011

 

What US city has been most affected by industry abandonment?


In the rich fabric of the city’s landscape - rows of boarded storefronts, the bright sprawl of petrochemical plants and the swollen rooms of hospital wards and crowded bars - one finds a microcosm of the 21st century. Land Of Destiny is a tender portrait of a working-class city in paralysis and a devastating investigation into when and for what people fight. 

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