Here it Snows in June and Other Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781951319366)

In Eric Cyr's debut collection of short fiction, the characters inhabit rural Minnesota, and Midwest moods and landscapes shape their lives and stories. The lies and longings, the loves and violence, the vulnerabilities at the center of modern existence are evident in each narrative arc. Young husbands and fathers, high school students and would-be priests are asked to face up to the bitterness born of the choices they, and those they love, have made.

By turns darkly comic, startling, and mythically strange, these stories track the quiet lives of men who long for connection and transcendence as they struggle to truly make sense of their days and to live intentionally in a world that often mocks and belittles those who, relegated to a regular existence, decide to dedicate themselves to hidden duties. The characters in Here It Snows in June negotiate their sense of self and the stranger, God and the world, longings undermined and threatened by their own stubbornness and even their self-serving moral misprision. Still, Cyr's characters are never denied occasions to face up to and be free from their resentments-to win victories over their smaller selves.