How I Got to Cleveland, (Hardcover)

<p>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 </p><p>eye-opening road trip in the early 70's. A NYC high school teacher dates an FDNY fireman post 9/11. A comic monologue about death. And a Midwest Boomer's coming-of-age diary. And a comic monologue about death. Memoir-like comic &amp; tragic stories; life experiences of contemporary women of various generations.</p><p></p><p>"Jack Kerouac's <em>On the Road</em> was a bible... <em>How I Got to Cleveland</em> 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." </p><p>--Gregg Wilson, Back Stage</p><p></p><p><em>How I Got to Cleveland</em> follows a circuitous and emotionally desolate path that covers ground from Little Rock to Cleveland... from affection, hopelessness to embarrassment." </p><p>-David Lyman, Seattle Post-Intelligencer </p><p> </p><p> "I loved <em>Cleveland</em> ...a contribution to the literature of bizarre journals." -Eric Bogosian</p><p></p><p>"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</p><p></p><p>Adult Fiction, Memoir-like adventures of women of various generations</p>

• How I Got to Cleveland, (Hardcover)
• Author: Kindness, Inc.
• ISBN: 9798995438120
• Format: Hardcover
• Publication Date: 2026-06-10
• Page Count: 140