The Heart Crossways - Paperback

by James Claffey (Author)

James Claffey's brilliant debut novel, and aptly named, The Heart Crossways, grabs hold of you from the start. All the despair and desires of this boy's life, of this family's struggles, and atmospheric Dublin, comes fully to life. Sentence after gorgeous sentence, one feels total immersion. Lyrical and lovely, this novel is poetry in motion.

Author Biography

James Claffey hails from County Westmeath, Ireland, and lives on an avocado ranch in Carpinteria, CA. He is fiction editor at Literary Orphans, and the author of the short fiction collection, Blood a Cold Blue. His work appears in the W.W. Norton Anthology, Flash Fiction International; New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction; and in Queensferry Press's anthology, Best Small Fictions of 2015.