Henson, Mike,

Maggie Boylan /Michael Henson. - First Swallow Press / - Athens, Ohio : Swallow Press, (c)2018. - 1 online resource

First published in 2015 as The way the world is.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Maggie Boylan -- Black Friday -- The way the world is -- Timothy Weatherstone -- Liars -- All this craziness -- Probation -- The girl who spoke foreign -- Acceptance is the answer -- Pillhead Hill.

Set in Appalachian Ohio amid an epidemic of prescription opiate abuse, Michael Henson's linked collection tells of a woman's search for her own peculiar kind of redemption, and brings the novel-in-stories form to new heights. Maggie Boylan is an addict, thief, liar, and hustler. But she is also a woman of deep compassion and resilience.



9780804040914


Addicts--Fiction.
Opioids--Fiction.


Electronic Books.

PS3558 / .M344 2018