Robert Miltner's Ohio Apertures is a collection of brief pieces of creativenonfiction that turns its attention to northeast Ohio's position as both a GreatLakes state and the north coast of America. Its two dozen selections, whichinclude flash memoir, lyric essays, narrative nonfiction, literary nonfiction, travel writing, and historical excavations of place, trace the author's life fromearly childhood onward, offering a template for understanding the impactof place, region, family, literacy, and cultural influence on the shaping of aMidwest identity.