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    Ghost County

    By John McCarthy

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    In John McCarthy’s debut collection, lifetimes are spent traveling in pickup trucks across the Midwest, exploring spaces between love and its imperfect manifestations. Ghost County drives blue-collar back roads and guides readers through personal meditations about heritage, loss, and the desire to reimagine the past and future. Dateless baseball trophies, the world’s largest catsup bottle, and swivel set televisions illustrate a Midwest that is recognizable and echoes with its own poetry, affirming the traditions and experiences that bind this region to self and self to region.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMG Press
    Release dateMar 1, 2016
    ISBN9781944850012
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    Ghost County
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    John McCarthy

    John McCarthy is currently an investigative consultant for Children’s Services of NYC, assisting in child abuse investigations. He studied at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and worked for over twenty years as a police officer and detective for the NYPD. John has two grown children and currently lives in New Rochelle, New York.

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