True to its name, Burning Down My Fathers House, comes at you like a house on fire. Michael Gillss fourth collection of short fiction continues the saga of Joey Harvell, whos from a people prone to impromptu fistfights on the sides of southern highways, where they drive semis hauling dead whales floating in beds of formaldehyde, after all, this was the Dixie Circuitit was nothing for a Peterbilt to pull off the interstate with a six-hundred-pound rat, two-headed goats or Donkey Woman nursing horsey-faced twins. Murderous and grace-infused, these stories incinerate the family trials and tribulations that collect and go on collecting until they stack floor to ceiling under the carports of our lives. Whats left after the great conflagration is a matter of the heart, how we love, even when its impossible.
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Weight: 284g
Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
Publication Date: 29 Feb 2024
Publisher: Texas Review Press
Publication City/Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781680033137
About Michael Gills
Michael Gills is the author of eight books of fiction and nonfiction including Finisterre the second book of a two-part visionary memoir (Raw Dog Screaming Press 2021) and the novel West (RDSP 2019) Book three of the Go Love Quartet. His short story collection The House Across from the Deaf School (Texas Review Press 2016) won a Utah Book Prize. Other work has been awarded the Southern Humanities Reviews Theodore Hoefner Prize for Fiction Southern Reviews Best Debut of the Year recognition in the Best American Short Stories and Pushcart Prize Anthology and inclusion in New Stories from The South: The Years Best. His undergraduate novel writing workshop been featured in USA Today and several of his students have gone on to publish books of their own. Gills is a Distinguished Honors Professor at the University of Utah.