The House Across from the Deaf School

The House across from the Deaf School, Michael Gills third collection of short fi ction, continues the life and times of Joey Harvell, whose stepfather, in Last Words on Lonoke, gives him a .30-06, tells him not to aim at anything he doesnt want to kill, and thats pretty much it for [his] gun safety lessons. Later, in What The Newly Dead Dont Know But Learn, his uncle swims Joey and a group of fake cowboys across a creek on Camp Robinson, only a fishermans trotline is stretched across the S-curve, and the result, like the book as a whole, is a hard fight theres no recovering from.