The Way the Family Got Away

This is the way the family got away. They pack all the things they can fit into the car and place the body of their dead brother in the toy box and put him in the boot. They leave Mineola, Texas and head across the terrifying, vacant landscape of Mid-America. In every place they visit, they sell off what they can to make it to the next town. They keep going to keep the family together. Michael Kimball''s remarkable The Way The Family Got Away is the story of the journey seen through the eyes of the family''s surviving children, a young boy and his younger sister. They try to make sense of death; why they must leave home and how they get from one place to the next. It is an extraordinary study of the effects of grief upon language and the ways that loss makes itself felt through a child''s imagination.

About the author

In 1998 Michael Kimball received a fellowship from the prestigious New York Foundation of the Arts. He has published fiction in New Orleans Review, Story Quarterly and The Quarterly; he is also a frequent reader at the renowned KGB Bar Reading Series. Kimball was born in 1967 in Michigan, grew up there, and now lives in Texas with his wife. How Much Of Us There Was is his second novel.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Kimball, Kimball Michael
• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.07.2008
• EAN: 9780007292073
• ISBN: 978-0-00-729207-3
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Texas, FICTION / Women, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Satire, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Contemporary lifestyle fiction, Myth & legend told as fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Fiction: Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales, Narrative theme: Journeys and voyages, The;Brontë;Love;Family;Marriage;Romance;Modern