Timothy Johnston - The Current

Closer to home: Tyler Johnston, whose influence extended far beyond legal expertise and into essential matters of storytelling; and Chris Kelley, who put his keen eye to earliest details and design, and all for the better. For all manner of friendship and inspiration and belief and support, I thank Mark Wisniewski, PD Mallamo, Randy Larson, Don Foster, Erin Quigley, Mark Carroll and Carmela Rappazzo. And of course Carolyn Blais, whose natural gifts of love and laughter made this book, and its author, better.

Finally, to the person holding this book, whoever you are: Thank you for being a reader of books and for reading this one in particular. You make it all matter.

Never So Green

Irish Girl

Descent

TIM JOHNSTON is the author of the debut adult novel Descent , the story collection Irish Girl , and the young adult novel Never So Green . Published in 2009, the stories in Irish Girl won an O. Henry Prize, the New Letters Award for Writers, and the Gival Press Short Story Award, while the collection itself won the 2009 Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction. In 2005 the title story, “Irish Girl,” was included in the David Sedaris anthology of favorites Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules . Johnston’s stories have also appeared in New England Review, New Letters , the Iowa Review , the Missouri Review, DoubleTake, Best Life Magazine , and Narrative Magazine , among others. He holds degrees from the University of Iowa and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He currently teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Memphis.

Published by

Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill

Post Office Box 2225

Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27515-2225

a division of

Workman Publishing

225 Varick Street

New York, New York 10014

© 2019 by Tim Johnston.

All rights reserved.

This is a work of fiction. While, as in all fiction, the literary perceptions and insights are based on experience, all names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018020534

eISBN: 978-1-61620-889-9