A Great Place to Be From

In heat like this, the world gets louder and rules don’t apply. You can’t trust anyone and sometimes, suddenly, everything becomes clear.

The Midwest is struck by a monstrous heat wave — the kind that makes cows keel over and chickens explode. In A Great Place to Be From, four people tell the stories of how their lives change forever in ways so absurd, tragic and transporting that they only make sense through a haze of scorching sun bouncing off the asphalt.