Publisher Comments:

Inside Tim Johnston's Irish Girl, readers will find spellbinding stories of loss, absence, and the devastating effects of chance -- of what happens when the unthinkable bad luck of other people, of other towns, becomes our bad luck, our town. Taut, lucid, and engrossing, provocative and dark -- and often darkly funny -- these stories have much to offer the lover of literary fiction as well as the reader who just loves a great story.

Reviews:

"These beautifully rendered tales deliver an emotional wallop." Publishers Weekly

Author Bio:

Tim Johnston was born in Iowa City, Iowa. When his first novel, Never So Green, was published, he was working as a carpenter in Hollywood, California. His fiction has been included in the O. Henry Prize Stories and David Sedaris' anthology of favorites, Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules. Awarded a MacDowell Fellowship in 2008, Tim is currently back in Iowa City, writing a new novel.