*** Due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been postponed. We will re-schedule for the month of November, and update you on the exact date soon.***

Union Ave Books welcomes M. Randal O'Wain to present his collection of stories HALLELUJAH STATION. M. Randal will be joined in conversation by Adam O'Fallon Price, author of the recent book HOTEL NEVERSINK. This free virtual event takes place on  September 20th @ 2pm (Eastern) on Zoom, send an RSVP to RSVP@unionavebooks.com to attend. Please include the the title of the book HALLELUJAH STATION in the subject line. We will send the zoom link the day of the event. 

Purchase HALLELUJAH STATION here: https://unionavebooks.indielite.org/book/9781938769597

DESCRIPTION

M. Randal O’Wain’s debut short story collection, Hallelujah Station and Other Stories, introduces readers to a wide and diverse cast of characters struggling with and responding to changes and loss. These gritty and poignant stories follow the tragic parts of life, the pieces that may neither start nor end in comfortable resolution and the pieces that make up complex realities. In the first story, a former drug dealer reflects on a life-changing decision he made years ago that ended up hurting the person he most wanted to protect. Later in the collection, we meet a would-be robber who turns out, in strange ways, to be the hero. O’Wain’s characters are often deeply flawed or totally lost, but in each instance, these traits serve to reveal the characters as real, compassionate, and, ultimately, human. Sprinkled with humor and heartache, O’Wain’s stories bring us into contact with the curious, the tragic, and the authentic.
 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR (S)

M. Randal O’Wain is the author of Meander Belt: Family, Loss, and Coming of Age in the Working Class South. He is assistant teaching professor of creative writing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and serves as a National Endowment of the Arts Writing fellow at the Alderson Federal Correctional Institution. His work has been published in Oxford American, The Masters Review, Crazyhorse, Zone 3, and Guernica Magazine.

Adam O'Fallon Price received his MFA at Cornell University. His work has been published in The Paris Review, Vice, The Iowa Review, Glimmer Train, and elsewhere. His first novel The Grand Tour was published in 2016. He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Hotel Neversink, his most recent novel, was a 2020 Edgar award winner.