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How I Got to Cleveland
Paperback
Publisher Price: $16.95
Publisher: Kindness, Inc.
Published: Jun 15 2026
Pages: 140
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.33 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Five short stories of Americana: An artist stuck in a low-wage job at a movie house as the punk rock era kicks off in San Francisco. An 18-year-old's eye-opening road trip in the early 70's. A New York City high school teacher gets to know an FDNY fireman post 9/11. A Midwest Boomer coming-of-age diary. And a comic monologue about death. Memoir-like stories of fear, vulnerability, sexism, moral ambivalence, illusion & delusion-life experiences of contemporary women.
Jack Kerouac's On the Road was a bible... How I Got to Cleveland makes the same journey through the eyes of a young woman. Although the story may be about one person, we can imagine many women to have traveled a similar road.
--Gregg Wilson, Back Stage
How I Got to Cleveland follows a circuitous and emotionally desolate path that covers ground from Little Rock to Cleveland... from affection, hopelessness to embarrassment.
-David Lyman, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
I loved Cleveland ...a contribution to the literature of bizarre journals. -Eric Bogosian
Writer Karen Williams takes us down two dazzling different roads: one illuminated by stark experience and a dead-end road of blunted emotion ... intimate performances that flash and burn like sparks from a blowtorch. -David Fischer, The Seattle Fringe Festival
Adult Fiction, Memoir-like adventures of women of various generations
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