In the Event of Contact
Stories
Published on 18. May 2021
125 pages
978-1-950539-40-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Person
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.
Content
- Intro
- In the Event of Contact
- Publishing Details
- Dedication
- Contents
- In the Event of Contact
- Into the West
- Everywhere She Went
- Rare, But Not Impossible
- Unwanted
- Collisions
- At the Side of the Road
- Blindsided
- Before Storms Had Names
- Blue Hot
- Wilde
- F Is for Something
- Any Wonder Left
- The Great Blue Open
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
