During a Detroit winter’s final snowfall in 1980, feeling fine after a few too many drinks, Hannah Fallon crashes her car through a cyclone fence and into a tree, leaving behind a messy wake of love and grief through which her family must wade in the year following her death. The story of the Fallon family, told in retrograde beginning a year out from Hannah’s death through the family members’ varying viewpoints, explores the humor, love, and rancor of a family grappling to keep their tight-knit bonds from unraveling.
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A Bit About The Writer
Joseph O'Malley's collection of short stories
GREAT ESCAPES FROM DETROIT
is available from
Cornerstone Press or Amazon.com.
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​ He was educated at Wayne State University, Boston College, and The University of Iowa. He taught writing for four years at Boston College, and completed an M.F.A. in fiction at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he was the recipient of a Houghton Mifflin Fellowship,
a Michener/Copernicus Fellowship,
and an Alice Sheets grant. His fiction has been published in a score of journals, including Colorado Review, Glimmer Train, Crazyhorse, and A Public Space. Three of his stories have received Pushcart nominations.
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“Joseph O’Malley writes about ordinary people with such care and a clear eye for the truth.The stories in Great Escapes from Detroit are luminous with what lesser writers miss — the magic and the splendor of the commonplace come alive.”
Lee Martin,
author of the Pulitzer Prize FinalistThe Bright Forever
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Cover Photo by Michael McNeil
