MCKEAN COUNTY AND OTHER STORIES

McKean County, Pennsylvania is located in the Allegheny Mountains, three hundred miles north of Pittsburgh, ninety miles south of Buffalo, New York, and twenty-five years behind anywhere else. , Matt Lang grew up there and moved away. , He lives in Chicago now.  , So begins the title story from this startling debut collection of short-stories. In &ldquo,Key West&rdquo,, &ldquo,Manila, Mindoro, Manila&rdquo,, and &ldquo,McKean, County&rdquo,, Matt Lang is a man a notch or two out of place.  ,&ldquo,384 Miles to Omaha&rdquo, is an unflinching look at the consequences of a father who thinks he has no choice.  ,&ldquo,Back to Ur&rdquo, is the fable of a father who knows he has a choice, but is conflicted about what to choose.  ,&ldquo,A Hot Dog Love Story&rdquo, is, well, a love story. , With a hot dog in it.  ,  , Full of equal parts humor and heartbreak, ,McKean County and Other Stories ,will keep you off balance even as it pulls you in deeper._,