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Drowned Boy, Jerry Gabriel
An unsentimental portrait of small town Ohio that reveals a world of brutality, beauty, and danger in basketball tournaments and family reunions. Set in the hardscrabble borderlands where Appalachia meets the Midwest, these linked stories are unsettling and vivid.
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Additional Info
Jerry Gabriel studied at Ohio State, Northern Arizona University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He has worked as a science writer and taught writing at a number of universities, including, from 2001-2008, as a lecturer in Cornell University's Engineering Communications Program. Starting in the fall 2008, he will be a visiting assistant professor at St. Mary's College of Maryland.