Up Next: The Red Heads: A Novel Acquired by Forest Avenue Press.
Winner of a Colorado Book Award and finalist for an Oregon Book Award. Explores the vocational and emotional bargains made by diverse, complex, and authentic characters in small-town Colorado.
Kirkus calls the book “an excellent collection that’s likely to appeal to fans of Alice Munro and Tobias Wolff—or to anybody with a taste for emotionally resonant short fiction.”
Buy: Annie Bloom’s, Powell’s. Interviews: Read: One Story, WVU Press; Watch: KOIN6news, Politics and Prose; Listen: KGNU Radio Bookclub.
Centered on the passing of the 1967 Beach Bill, the legislation that made all Oregon beaches public land.
Kirkus calls the novel “a revealing and contemplative tale about people tied to a wondrous, harsh landscape.”
Author Kathleen Rooney says “it takes a lucid and discerning look at how people can belong to a place and whether or not a place can really belong to a person.”
Buy: Powell’s, Amazon. Interviews: Read: Oregonian; Watch: Annie Bloom’s Books.