From the Place in the Valley Deep in the Forest

A group of housewives smoke cigars and play cards whilst a tornado approaches a west Texas town. An Asian-American medic bicycles through the Vietnam countryside with her husband and son and returns to the spot where she once held dying soldiers. Or a young rockabilly aficionado prepares for a date in a Ukranian village close to Chenobyl. The words of Beatles songs sung in a Cambodian work camp. Cullin's ability is to miraculously create moments of true pathos which distill important human experience into a single hair-raising image. Cullin has received the Stony Brook Short Fiction Award and this collection has been compared with David Mitchell's Ghostwritten.

“Every time he focuses on the one character who can best tell of a larger tragedy. He finds the perfect narrator... brave, highly imagined fiction writing. - THE GUARDIAN - TODD MCEWEN”

Every time he focuses on the one character who can best tell of a larger tragedy. He finds the perfect narrator... brave, highly imagined fiction writing. - THE GUARDIAN - TODD MCEWEN

Mitch Cullin is 35, he lives in Los Angeles and has had his fiction published in various periodicals (Christopher Street, Santa Fe Literary Review etc) and has also been awarded the Stony Brook Short Fiction Award as well as various writing grants and scholarships.

A group of housewives smoke cigars and play cards whilst a tornado approaches a west Texas town; an Asian-American medic bicycles through the Vietnam countryside with her husband and son, returning to the spot where she once held dying soldiers. A young rockabilly aficionado prepares for a date in a Ukranian village close to Chernobyl; the words of a Beatles' song ring out in a Cambodian work camp.This is a collection of truly brilliant short stories, desolate but uplifting, each depicting the deeply personal experience of a universal or historical event. Momentous fiction from the best American writer of his generation. Cullin's ability is to miraculously create moments of true pathos which distil important human experience into a single hair-raising image. .[back flap]Mitch Cullin was born in 1968 in New Mexico. He is the author of four novels: Whompyjawed (1999), Branches (2000), Tideland (2000), and The Cosmology of Bing (2001). He has been the recipient of many awards and honours, including a Dodge Jones Foundation grant and a poetry fellowship from The Arizona Commission of the Arts.

A group of housewives smoke cigars and play cards whilst a tornado approaches a west Texas town. An Asian-American medic bicycles through the Vietnam countryside with her husband and son and returns to the spot where she once held dying soldiers. Or a young rockabilly aficionado prepares for a date in a Ukranian village close to Chenobyl. The words of Beatles songs sung in a Cambodian work camp. Cullin's ability is to miraculously create moments of true pathos which distill important human experience into a single hair-raising image. Cullin has received the Stony Brook Short Fiction Award and this collection has been compared with David Mitchell's Ghostwritten .

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