McKean County and Other Stories

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.