Blue Ash, OH: Tyrus Books / F+W Media, Inc, (2013). First edition - The author's first book, "A powerfully observed, evocative, and downright dazzlingÓ (NY Times) portrait of the American working class in a collection of related stories. "After more than a decade spent in and out of juvenile detention, halfway houses, and jail, Roy Alison returns to his rural hometown determined to do better. But what he finds is a working-class community devastated by the economic downturn - a town without anything to hold onto but the past." 195 pp.