True to its name, Burning Down My Father's House, comes at you like a house on fire. Michael Gills's fourth collection of short fiction continues the saga of Joey Harvell, who's from a people prone to impromptu fistfights on the sides of southern highways, where they drive semis hauling dead whales floating in beds of formaldehyde.
Burning Down My Father's House continues Joey Harvell's ongoing quest to balance life and family with the search for all that he misses in this world, all the time dogged by the ragged beauty and haunted Arkansas past that haunts his and his family's trail. Part love story and ceremony, and part final reckoning between adoptive father and son, Gills's fourth collection--as one of its featured stories claims--calls down fire.
