McKean County and Other Stories

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McKean County, Pennsylvania is located in the Allegheny Mountains, three hundred miles north of Pittsburgh, ninety miles south of Buffalo, New York, and twenty-five years behind anywhere else. Matt Lang grew up there and moved away. He lives in Chicago now.

So begins the title story from this startling debut collection of short-stories. In Key West , Manila, Mindoro, Manila , and McKean, County , Matt Lang is a man a notch or two out of place. 384 Miles to Omaha is an unflinching look at the consequences of a father who thinks he has no choice. Back to Ur is the fable of a father who knows he has a choice, but is conflicted about what to choose. A Hot Dog Love Story is, well, a love story. With a hot dog in it.

Full of equal parts humor and heartbreak, McKean County and Other Stories will keep you off balance even as it pulls you in deeper.