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Ethel Rohan is the author of In the Event of Contact, winner of the Dzanc Short Story Collection Prize (May, 2021). Her debut novel The Weight of Him (St. Martin's Press and Atlantic Books, 2017) was an Amazon, Bustle, KOBO, and San Francisco Chronicle Best Book, and was shortlisted for the Reading Women Award. She is also the author of the story collections, Goodnight Nobody and Cut Through the Bone, the former longlisted for the Edge Hill Prize and the latter longlisted for the Story Prize. Her work has appeared widely, including The New York Times, World Literature Today, The Washington Post, PEN America, The Irish Times, Tin House, and Guernica. Raised in Ireland, she lives in San Francisco. ...more

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	The Weight of Him 3.78 avg rating — 985 ratings — published 2017 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flash Fiction International: Very Short Stories from Around the World by James Thomas (Editor), Robert Shapard (Editor), Christopher Merrill (Editor) 3.76 avg rating — 382 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In the Event of Contact 4.17 avg rating — 168 ratings — published 2021 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cut Through the Bone 4.31 avg rating — 119 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nothing Short Of: Selected Tales from 100 Word Story.org by Grant Faulkner (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Lynn Mundell (Editor), Beret Olsen (Editor) 4.11 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hard to Say 4.49 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Goodnight Nobody really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lineup: 20 Provocative Women Writers by Richard Thomas (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Laura Benedict (Goodreads Author), Paula Bomer (Goodreads Author) 4.08 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Out of Dublin 4.17 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2014 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Winesburg, Indiana, Break Away Book Club Edition: A Fork River Anthology by Michael Martone (Contributor), Bryan Furuness (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Valerie Sayers (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.93 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Ethel Rohan liked Gemma Whelan's review of The Weight of Him: "A beautifully written story of a family turned upside-down by tragedy, and a father’s brave efforts to transform grief and sorrow into meaning for his family, his community, and his country. Ethel Rohan captures the cadence of everyday life with a su" Read more of this review »
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“Billy felt he would burst. He knew that feeling well. But never in a good way. Until now.”
― Ethel Rohan, The Weight of Him

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“Why did it take tragedy to bring out the best in us? And why was that state of grace so fleeting?”
― Ethel Rohan, The Weight of Him

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“He'd never known he had so much fight in him. Never known he could be capable of so much... He was going to change the world.”
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August BoTM Nominations ~ Books Published in 2017 ~ 1st Poll!
Top 5 books move onto the final poll.

The Breakdown

by B.A. Paris

7 votes, 12.3%

The Orphan's Tale

by Pam Jenoff

6 votes, 10.5%

Beartown

by Fredrik Backman

6 votes, 10.5%

Never Let You Go

by Chevy Stevens

6 votes, 10.5%

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

by Gail Honeyman

5 votes, 8.8%

Pachinko

by Min Jin Lee

4 votes, 7.0%

A Piece of the World

by Christina Baker Kline

4 votes, 7.0%

The Keeper of Lost Things

by Ruth Hogan

4 votes, 7.0%

UNSUB

by Meg Gardiner

3 votes, 5.3%

My Husband's Wife

by Amanda Prowse

2 votes, 3.5%

The Garden of Small Beginnings

by Abbi Waxman

2 votes, 3.5%

Anything Is Possible

by Elizabeth Strout

2 votes, 3.5%

The Boy on the Bridge

by M.R. Carey

2 votes, 3.5%

Fierce Kingdom

by Gin Phillips

2 votes, 3.5%

When Dimple Met Rishi

by Sandhya Menon

2 votes, 3.5%

The Weight of Him

by Ethel Rohan

0 votes, 0.0%

Give It Back

by Danielle Esplin

0 votes, 0.0%

Ginny Moon

by Benjamin Ludwig

0 votes, 0.0%

Salt Houses

by Hala Alyan

0 votes, 0.0%

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“I'm looking for a writer who doesn't know where the sentence is leading her; a writer who starts with her obsessions and whose heart is bursting with love, a writer sly enough to give the slip to her secret police, the ones who know her so well, the ones with the power to accuse and condemn in the blink of an eye. It's all right that she doesn't know what she's thinking until she writes it, as if the words already exist somewhere and draw her to them. She may not know how she got there, but she knows when she's arrived.”
― Sy Safransky

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