{"product_id":"delusions-of-grandeur-9781496212108","title":"Delusions of Grandeur","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart cultural critique, part parental confessional, Delusions of Grandeur embraces the notion that the personal is always political and reveals important, if sometimes uncomfortable, truths about our American obsessions with race, class, religion, and family.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Before opening \u003ci\u003eDelusions of Grandeur\u003c\/i\u003e, I was certain I was fatigued of ruminating on these large ideas. Upon closing it, I understood something new about myself: I didn’t want to step away from these topics. In fact, I craved discussion on them—but I needed a thoughtful, reflective voice to wade with me through my own comfortable delusions. I needed a calm, self-critical, and genuinely funny voice that helped me to see myself.\"—Kate Madsen, \u003ci\u003eBrevity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Franklin writes like a novelist, reasons like a theologian, and reminds us that getting it \u003ci\u003eright\u003c\/i\u003e, in both language and life, is all that matters in the end.”—Dennis Covington, author of \u003ci\u003eSalvation on Sand Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I’m a serious admirer of Joey Franklin’s work, and this book gathers some of his very best and most culturally and politically relevant, nuanced, balanced, and penetrating essays—which, properly and widely read, might actually deepen and widen the conversation, at least a little.”—David Shields, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Trouble with Men: Reflections on Sex, Love, Marriage, Porn, and Power\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"With candor, modesty, and a leavening of humor, he ponders sexual shame, dysfunctional families, class divisions, apocalyptic religion, and other difficult issues, inviting the reader to join him in the search for understanding.\"—Scott Russell Sanders, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Way of Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Over the course of these ten essays, Franklin does not simply dig into the classic pillars of the self, like gender or family; he also interrogates myriad other influences that contribute to his reality with an unflinching clarity, including class, intergenerational wealth and trauma, faith and fear, ambition and envy.”—Elena Passarello, author of \u003ci\u003eLet Me Clear My Throat\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAnimals Strike Curious Poses\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Removing the veil of his own misconceptions and training a floodlight on those of our shared society, Franklin unpacks notions of goodness, nakedness, perception and—with a true vitality of language—confronts the myths we both inherit and perpetuate. All delusions aside, this is a work of greatness, grand in spirit and faith, willing to upend artifice and invention for the sake of empathy. This is a writer concerned with truth and healing, alive with a sober and dazzling sense of hope.”—Jericho Parms, author of \u003ci\u003eLost Wax\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“With certainty undergirded by fact, and wisdom that never overreaches, these essays are grand (and not at all delusional).”—Debra Monroe, author of \u003ci\u003eMy Unsentimental Education\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In the excellent essays of \u003ci\u003eDelusions of Grandeur\u003c\/i\u003e, Joey Franklin perfects, ages, then, cures, perhaps, the genre’s full extension and expression, engineering whole new worried and weathered precincts of prose genius. Here, the maturation of the micro-memoir. Here, the fine calculus of the personal essay. Here, the literal reinvention of literary journalism. These big-shouldered essays are riveting, I-beams bolted and bolting, hither and yon, spot lit and spot on.”—Michael Martone, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Moon Over Wapakoneta\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBrooding\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Joey Franklin dives into difficult topics—poverty and wealth, masculinity, race, whiteness, privilege, parenting, linguistic and regional bias, and what it means to be and do good in the world—with thoughtful grace. This book is a Montaignian mash-up relevant for twenty-first century readers, each essay braided with equal parts fascinating research and deep vulnerability, an admirable union of brain and heart.”—Sonya Huber, author of \u003ci\u003ePain Woman Takes Your Keys and Other Essays from a Nervous System\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments \u003cbr\u003e Delusions of Grandeur: An Introduction \u003cbr\u003e Toy Soldiers \u003cbr\u003e Girl Fight \u003cbr\u003e Good Enough \u003cbr\u003e Stuck \u003cbr\u003e White Trash \u003cbr\u003e Not in My Backyard \u003cbr\u003e Thursday Night Lights \u003cbr\u003e The Full Montaigne \u003cbr\u003e Worry Lines \u003cbr\u003e Apocalypse, Now? \u003cbr\u003e A Note on Notes \u003cbr\u003e Notes","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409224507735,"sku":"9781496212108","price":15.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496212108.jpg?v=1730506023","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/delusions-of-grandeur-9781496212108","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}