The short fiction of Colum McCann documents a dizzying cast of characters in exile, loss, love, and displacement.
But what is found in these stories, and discovered by these characters, is the astonishing poetry and peace found in the mundane:.
There is the worn boxing champion who steals clothes from a New Orleans laundromat, the rumored survivor of Hiroshima who emigrates to the tranquil coast of Western Ireland, the Irishwoman who journeys through America in search of silence and solitude.
The short fiction of Colum McCann documents a dizzying cast of characters in exile, loss, love, and displacement