Dennis McFadden

Jimtown Road Dennis McFadden

Winner of the 2016 Press 53 Award for Short Fiction, Jimtown Road, by Dennis MCFadden, takes readers on a years-long journey through the small Pennsylvania town of Hartsgrove by way of linked stories that "offer an unblinking look, illuminated with burning intensity by the ever-present moon, at the darkest parts of the human heart" (Ray Morrison), and reads like "a page-turning mystery thriller" (Donald Ray Pollack). "These stories, these characters, this town," according to Patricia McNair, will "inhabit [you] like an ache, like an exquisite yearning."