1 rich Libsyn https://www.libsyn.com 90 600 In this companion episode to our &quot;Succession&quot; season, Megan sits down with author Joe Wilkins to explore the pressures facing rural communities and how fiction can help us understand them more deeply. Joe’s award-winning novel &quot;The Entire Sky&quot; follows a ranch family in eastern Montana navigating grief, generational change and the uncertain future of their land. Through these fictional characters, the novel offers a different way to think about succession and what happens when transition is delayed or avoided. Like Megan, Joe also grew up in rural Montana and has since chosen a home elsewhere, but his work is still rooted in the eastern Montana landscape – his “primal place” – where he witnessed how land shapes people and families over time. Together, Megan and Joe also discuss the “tilt,” or forces pressing down on agricultural communities today, and the push-and-pull between leaving and returning home. Reframing Rural https://reframingrural.org <iframe title="Libsyn Player" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/40689385/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/forward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/88AA3C/" height="90" width="600" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe> https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/item/40689385