Dave Madden and Theodore Wheeler read from their new story collections.
About the books:
Theodore Wheeler's Bad Faith:
With results both liberating and disastrous, the characters of Bad Faith flee the trappings of contemporary domestic life. A young father visits a college friend in San Salvador rather than face the anticipated difficult birth of his third child. A boy comes to terms with his fractured family and the disabled father responsible for him after his soldier mother is stationed overseas. A biracial man journeys across Nebraska for the funeral of his white mother and strikes up an improbable if dishonest relationship with a centenarian Irish woman. And in the collection’s title story, the running narrative of a pathetic yet oddly compelling ladies man culminates in an unexpected and deadly confrontation. In Theodore Wheeler’s collection of prizewinning stories, the herd can’t always outpace the predator.
Dave Madden and Theodore Wheeler read from their new story collections.
About the books:
Theodore Wheeler's Bad Faith:
With results both liberating and disastrous, the characters of Bad Faith flee the trappings of contemporary domestic life. A young father visits a college friend in San Salvador rather than face the anticipated difficult birth of his third child. A boy comes to terms with his fractured family and the disabled father responsible for him after his soldier mother is stationed overseas. A biracial man journeys across Nebraska for the funeral of his white mother and strikes up an improbable if dishonest relationship with a centenarian Irish woman. And in the collection’s title story, the running narrative of a pathetic yet oddly compelling ladies man culminates in an unexpected and deadly confrontation. In Theodore Wheeler’s collection of prizewinning stories, the herd can’t always outpace the predator.
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