Meet the Author: Tim Johnston - DISTANT SONS

Author Tim Johnston presents his novel DISTANT SONS at the Spencer Road branch room A on the first floor.  

About DISTANT SONS

What if Sean Courtland’s old Chevy truck had broken down somewhere else? What if he’d never met Denise Givens, a waitress at a local tavern, and gotten into a bar fight defending her honor? Or offered a ride and a job to Dan Young, another young man like Sean, burdened by secrets and just drifting through town?

Instead, over the course of just a few short weeks, Sean and Dan form a deep friendship as they get drawn into the lives of the people they meet—from Denise and her father, to Marion Devereaux, who needs some work done on his house, to Corinne Viegas, a savvy detective with top-notch instincts—all haunted in different ways by the disappearance of three young boys decades ago, in the 1970s. And as these characters converge, an irreversible chain of events is set in motion that culminates in shattering violence, and the revelation of long-buried truths.

About Tim Johnston

Tim Johnston is the author of the novels Distant Sons (October 17, 2023), Descent, The Current, the story collection Irish Girl, and the Young Adult novel Never So Green. A New York Time, USA Today, and Indie national bestseller, Descent has been published internationally and optioned for film. Also optioned for film, The Current won the Midland Authors 202 Adult Fiction Award. The stories of Irish Girl won an O. Henry Prize, the New Letters Award for Writers, and the Gival Press Short Story Award, while the collection itself won the 2009 Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction. Tim's Stories have appeared in New England Review, New Letters, The Iowa Review, The Missouri Review, Double Take, Best Life Magazine, and Narrative Magazine, among others. He holds degrees from the University of Iowa and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and made his living as a carpenter for 25 years. In 2011-12 he was the Jenny McKean Moore Writer-in-Washington Fellow at the George Washington University, and he is the recipient of the 2015 Iowa Author Award. Time currently lives in Iowa City, Iowa. 

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