Keith Banner's newest collection of stories and essays exposes how desire allows rural boys not to escape or ascend their lives but step beyond the...

Keith Banner's newest collection of stories and essays exposes how desire allows rural boys not to escape or ascend their lives but step beyond the need to buy into the dreams that middle class America has propagated. These are stories--some based on the realities of the author's life, some spun fiction--that offer what goes on in the hearts and minds of youths at once trapped by the demands of their Rust Belt neighborhoods and also freed by a welcome sense of being the outsider.

Author: Keith Banner
Publisher: Lethe Press
Published: 04/17/2020
Pages: 228
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.52d
ISBN: 9781590217092

About the Author
Banner, Keith: - Keith Banner is the co-founder of Thunder-Sky, Inc. and Visionaries + Voices, two non-profit arts organizations in Cincinnati. He is a social worker for people with developmental disabilities full-time and taught creative writing part-time at Miami University for over twenty years. He received an O. Henry prize for his short story, The Smallest People Alive, and an Ohio Arts Council individual artist fellowship for fiction. The Smallest People Alive was named one of the best books of the year by Publisher's Weekly. Next to Nothing was nominated for the Lambda Literary Award in 2015.