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Winner, The Rome Prize Will Boast thought hed lost his family, until a deeply held secret revealed a second chance he never thought hed have. Having already lost his mother and only brother, twenty-four-year-old Will Boast finds himself absolutely alone when his father dies of alcoholism. Numbly settling the matters of his fathers estate, Boast is deep inside his grief when he stumbles upon documents revealing a secret his father had intended to keep Hed had another family before Willsa wife and two sons in England. This revelation leads to a flood of new questions. Did his father abandon this first family, or was he pushed away? Still reeling from loss, Boast is forced to reconsider the fundamental truths of his childhood and to look for traces of the man his father might truly have been.
About the Author
Will Boast was born in England and grew up in Ireland and Wisconsin. His story collection, Power Ballads, won the 2011 Iowa Short Fiction Award. His fiction and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in the Atlantic, the New York Times, Best New American Voices 2009, Narrative, Glimmer Train, the Southern Review, and the American Scholar, among other publications. From 2008-2010, he was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. He's currently a Charles Pick Fellow at the University of East Anglia.Boast is also a musician and plays regularly around the San Francisco Bay Area.More at willboast.com
