The Continental Divide

<p><strong>Named one of <em>Literary Hub</em>'s 100 Notable Small Press Books 2025</strong></p><p><strong>LONGLISTED PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection (2026)</strong></p><p><strong>FINALIST Society of Midland Authors Book Awards (2026)</strong></p><p></p><p>A country woman makes a Sophie's Choice regarding her family's survival. A small town marshal hunts his own son for murder. A former football hero must face his role in a brutal locker room ritual. Ferocious and real the fourteen tales in Bob Johnson's blistering debut<em> The Continental Divide</em> explore the undertow of violence and sin along the St. Lawrence Divide in northern Indiana where men women and children struggle to find their way in the darkness...of the divide.</p>