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Author_Ethel Rohan
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childhood friend
complex characters
cultural diaspora
cultural integration
culture clash
death and loss
diaspora
dublin
emotionally powerful
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female characters
humanity
ireland
irish characters
irish immigrants
irish-american
loners
oscar wilde
plain prose
priest
recovery
religion
san francisco
short fiction
short stories
sisterhood
survivors
women
women characters
women's fiction
wonder
Product details
- ISBN 9781950539260
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jul 2021
- Publisher: Dzanc Books
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In the Event of Contact chronicles characters profoundly affected by physical connection, or its lack. Among them, a scrappy teen vies to be the next Sherlock Holmes; an immigrant daughter must defend her decision to remain childless; a guilt-ridden woman is haunted by the disappearance of her childhood friend; a cantankerous crossing guard celebrates getting run over by a truck; an embattled priest with dementia determines to perform a heroic, redemptive act, if he can only remember how; and a young girl navigates crippling aversion to touch, even from her sisters.
Amidst backgrounds of trespass and absence, the indelible characters of In the Event of Contact seek renewed belief in themselves, recovery, and humanity.
Ethel Rohan is the author of In the Event of Contact, winner of the Dzanc Short Story Collection Prize (2021). Her debut novel The Weight of Him (St. Martin's Press and Atlantic Books, 2017) was an Amazon, Bustle, KOBO, and San Francisco Chronicle Best Book, and was shortlisted for the Reading Women Award. She is also the author of the story collections Goodnight Nobody and Cut Through the Bone, the former longlisted for the Edge Hill Prize and the latter longlisted for the Story Prize. Her work has appeared widely, including The New York Times, World Literature Today, The Washington Post, PEN America, Tin House, Guernica, and more. Raised in Ireland, she lives in San Francisco where she is a member of the Writers Grotto.
