Fiction. A husband wakes up to find that his wife has had a seizure during the night. The husband calls an ambulance and his wife is rushed to a hospital where she lies in a coma. By day, the husband sits beside his wife and tries to think of ways to wake her up. At night, the husband sleeps in the chair next to his wife's bedside dreaming that she will wake up. He wants to be able to take her back home.
Author City: BALTIMORE, MD USA
Michael Kimball is the author of three critically-acclaimed novels, including Dear Everybody and The Way the Family Got Away. Each of his novels has been translated (or is being translated) into many languages. His work has been featured on NPR's All Things Considered and in Vice, as well as The Guardian, Prairie Schooner, Post Road, Open City, Unsaid, and New York Tyrant. He is also responsible for Michael Kimball Writes Your Life Story (on a postcard) , the documentary films I Will Smash You and 60 Writers/60 Places, and the conceptual pseudonym Andy Devine.
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Lori Hettler @ The Next Best Book Club
Weston Cutter @ Corduroy Books
Russ Marshalek @ Flavorwire
interview by Matthew Simmons @ HTMLGIANT
interview by Jennifer Haupt @ Psychology Today
John Poch @ Big Other
Editor's Pick: Top 10 Best Modern Literary Love Stories @ The Best Damn Creative Writing Blog
Audrey Quinn @ NewPages
Michael Goroff @ Barn Owl Review
Chris Vola @ Word Riot