A Place Remote

From farm to factory alcoholism to war wounds friendship to betrayal the stories in A Place Remote take us intimately into the hearts of people from all walks of life in a rural Ohio town. Whether they stay in their town or leave for distant places these characters come to realize no one is immune to the fictions people tell othersand themselvesto survive each of these ten stories Gwen Goodkin forces her characters to face the dramatic events of life head-onsome events happen in a moment while others are the fallout of years or decades of turning away. A boy is confronted by the cost of the family farm an optometrist careens toward an explosive mental disaster a mourning teen protects his sister lifelong friends have an emotional confrontation over an heirloom and a high school student travels to Germany to find his voice and finally a moment of long-awaited redemption.