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From the best-selling writer of What Was Dropped comes a lively fictional secret about a television anchormanis search for the reality about the disappearances that encompass him Joe Allcroft, a television news anchor in his neighborhood (where he reviews on hard-reaching events, such as the beginning of canine gyms for obese animals), is on the brink of a mid-life crisis. Beneath his notoriously tacky on-screen identity, Joe is haunted by reduction: the mysterious hit-and-run that killed his friend and predecessor, Phil, and the continuing demolition of his architect dadis amazing post-war structures. And then you can find the items he can not appear to shed, regardless of how hard he tries: his house, for one, available on the market for decades; and the uncomfortable feeling that he'll never really function as the boy his mother—newly ensconced within an assisted-living center—wanted.As Joe reveals the surprising truth behind Phil's demise, and involves terms together with his domineering father's heritage, it's his precious young child, Mo, who points him toward the near future. Humorous and touching, The News Headlines Where You Stand is just a moving exploration of what we do and do not leave-behind, showing once again that Catherine O'Flynnis composing "shimmers with dim beauty" (Chicago Tribune).