About

My writing appears in The New Guard, Write City, after hours, and The Country Doctor Revisited, among others. Published poetry book Wing. Readings include Printers Row, Space, Irish American Heritage Center, and Guild Complex. Awards from Illinois Arts Council and Chicago Writers Association, Faulkner Wisdom semi-finalist, and Machigonne Fiction Prize. Fiction residency from Ragdale, grant from StoryStudioChicago. Story in The New Guard nominated for a Pushcart.

Featured Work

novel: A Million Miles from Yesterday

2024


A Million Miles from Yesterday
Maureen Connolly
About the Book

Hank Cleary, the town doctor in Alma, Wisconsin, failed his wife when she died. In spring 1999 he struggles to climb back into life.

A Chicago expatriate, he is challenged by other migrants: the Chicana owner of Livy’s Bar and Café, an old man who loves jazz, a Navajo family transplanted from the Southwest, a strange woman who rarely speaks, a drifting Menominee, and the iconoclastic Bookstore Ladies. Disparate cultures rub up against each other.

When a cataclysmic fire engulfs the Alma recycling plant in mid-summer, Hank cannot resuscitate Silent Margaret, and he relives his despair at being unable to save his wife. At the turn of the millennium, healing comes in unexpected ways. A Million Miles from Yesterday
Maureen Connolly

Imprint: Slainte
ISBN: 979-8218378127
eBook ISBN: 979-8869224033
Genre: Inspirational
Language: ‎ English
Pages: 194
Item Weight: ‎10.2 ounces
Dimensions: ‎ 6 x 0.45 x 9 inches
Available formats: eBook and paperback edition

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Distributor: Ingram/LSI

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  • A Million Miles from Yesterday

    2024

  • A Million Miles from Yesterday

    2024

  • novel: A Million Miles from Yesterday

    2024