As the beginning of the first chapter opens up, it introduces you to what seems to be the main character. His name is Nathan Lein, a conservative law school graduate who has returned to his home town after a wild escapade of drugs and self discovery. The rituals and activities his mother and father do to keep the farm running are explained and seems very tedious. The physical stature of Nathan is very common to the corn belt, with a large frame of 280 pounds and being 6' 9" from all the corn he was feed as a child. The begging also help describe the culture of the small rural town and how the economy is sliding farther and farther down meaning that the small farms are failing. This provides hard time for everyone in the town where the farm community is the heart of the economy. Meth has now came in and is growing, with nowhere else to go farmers started selling fertilizer to the meth cooks, or the farmers would close down and sell there land and start producing it themselves. Then the meat packers at the factory would take the meth to work double shifts and stay up longer.
The books opening chapter has been very interesting so far. This book hits home for me because I grew up in a small farm town with a failing economy so to think that this could happen to my home town is sad but I that the meth problem has not reached as far as the north. But because of this book many people can become educated and not let the meth problem increase.
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