Stealing Away: Stories

Winner of a 2021 PenCraft Book Award. Set in places from the Midwest to the Middle East these thoughtful twelve stories feature characters struggling to define home and purpose as they are forced to choose between escape and making peace with their lots. A girl pins her hopes on her boyfriends illegal scheme to run away from a dead-end small-town life. Two orphans find meaning in a discarded canteen and the death of a stray dog in the Mexican desert. Obsessed with a local murder story an accountant imagines the crime and questions her marriage. Heartbroken and unhinged a delirious traveler crosses borders in the Middle East. A cynical backpacker tests his moral resolve in South America. Haunted by a childhood tragedy a man returns to his small-town neighborhood for answers. STEALING AWAY is a lush shimmering collection at once globe-trotting and far-afield and also somehow as intimate and quotidian as any small hometown. Revolinski an accomplished non-fiction writer proves with this book that he has incredible range wisdom and empathy. I raced through this collection of short stories and cant wait to read more of Revolinskis fiction. A fantastic debut.- Nickolas Butler author of Shotgun Lovesongs and Little Faith