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""If you were so fortunate as to grow up in a perfectly balanced family, where a child's need for some scrap of autonomy never conflicted with an adult's need to be in control, you may not savor the white hot volatility that characterizes the Harvells, Stepwells, or Rockersons transactions [in Burning Down My Father's House]. Yet you may still be able to appreciate the subtle precision with which Gills erects the edifices in your mind that house their stories, so that no matter how many times he repeats himself you want to hear more, and so continue to turn the page, or, when there are no more pages to turn here, seek out Why I Lie, The Death of Bonnie and Clyde or The Go Love Quartet for more."" --Geoff Wichert in 15 Bytes --Geoff Wichert ""15 Bytes"" (7/31/2024 12:00:00 AM)

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Michael Gills is the author of eight books of fiction and nonfiction, including Finisterre, the second book of a two-part visionary memoir (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2021) and the novel West (RDSP, 2019), Book three of the Go Love Quartet. His short story collection The House Across from the Deaf School (Texas Review Press, 2016) won a Utah Book Prize. Other work has been awarded the Southern Humanities Review’s Theodore Hoefner Prize for Fiction, Southern Review’s Best Debut of the Year, recognition in the Best American Short Stories and Pushcart Prize Anthology, and inclusion in New Stories from The South: The Year’s Best. His undergraduate novel writing workshop been featured in USA Today, and several of his students have gone on to publish books of their own. Gills is a Distinguished Honors Professor at the University of Utah.

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