The book, The Right Place, a combination of essays and poetry by the former editor and award-winning journalist of the Marshall Independent, "shows how life is never easy in the Midwest," according to Yost, but "there are people committed to the area." He writes eloquently about these people, and he exhorts "other residents--writers, local government leaders, business leaders, anyone with deep roots in the region--to keep thinking critically and passionately about its future."
In these beautifully wrought essays and poems, Yost writes about universals--death, war, faith, illness and grief--and how people deal with them in a specific place. Yost may have moved to Forest City, Iowa, but his heart clearly remains in southwest Minnesota.