A stunning short story collection chronicling the Midwest no one talks about…

A country woman makes a Sophie's Choice regarding her family's survival. A small town marshal hunts his own son for murder. A former football hero must face his role in a brutal locker room ritual. Ferocious and real, the fourteen tales in Bob Johnson's blistering debut The Continental Divide explore the undertow of violence and sin along the St. Lawrence Divide in northern Indiana, where men, women, and children struggle to find their way in the darkness...of the divide.

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About the Author

Bob Johnson holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop. He took an extended break from writing short stories to follow several career paths, the most notable being an English professorship at Goshen College in Goshen, Indiana, and Operations Manager at WSBT-TV in South Bend.

Upon retirement, he picked up his pen again and now writes full-time. His stories have appeared in The Hudson Review, The Common, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, The Barcelona Review, and elsewhere. His short story “Bird Fever” won the Marguerite McGlinn Award in Philadelphia Stories, and his story “The Continental Divide” was named Short Story of the Year in The Hudson Review.

Johnson lives and works in South Bend with his wife Cindy and their dog Gracie Mae.