Siobhan Fallon Biography, Books, and Similar Authors
Interview
Two interviews with Siobhan Fallon, discussing The Confusion of Languages, and her first book, You Know When The Men Are Gone
The Confusion of Languages is your debut novel. How was writing this story different than writing your story collection You Know When The Men Are Gone?
The Confusion of Languages&#; genesis was a short story I began writing in May By the time I finished, it was sixty pages&#;that&#;s not really a "short" story at all. Then it grew into a collection of interconnected stories that spanned about two years, from before Margaret and Crick even met. This collection moved from California to Oman to Jordan. I have early drafts where each story/chapter is told from the point of view of a different character; for example, Crick would have his say, then it would go to Margaret, then it would go to Dan, then Cassie, onward to other characters who aren&#;t even in the novel anymore.
But I soon realized that the short story&#;collection model of jumping from character to character wasn&#;t giving me enough space to delve deeply enough into the intimate thoughts of Margaret and Cassie, and
You Know When the Men Are Gone
We've seen media pictures proffering the stalwart strength and Mona Lisa smiles of army wives, but we haven't been host to their private trials--of farewells, homecomings, and transitions. Fallon captures their mixed emotions and fears with a gritty realism, and reveals critical, vital moments in their insular and marginal lives. She glances sharply into the tearful deployment, the lonely absence, and the stirring homecoming. How the wives cope with these changes is a recurring theme.
This is fiction, but Fallon writes with authority: her husband, a major, was deployed in Iraq for two tours of duty while she lived in Fort Hood.
The wives in this book form a proxy family together, the FRG (Family Readiness group), where, for better or worse, they convene and connect. They b
Siobhan Fallon
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Siobhan Fallon is the author of the award-winning short story collection, You Know When the Men Are Gone, and the novel, The Confusion of Languages.
Her essays and stories have been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post Magazine, NPR, Stars and Stripes, the anthologies Fire & Forget: Short Stories from the Long War and The Kiss: Intimacies from Writers, among others. Theatrical productions of her work have been performed home and abroad.
Siobhan is the wife of an active-duty Army officer who served three combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. Siobhan, her husband, and their two daughters have also spent seven years living in the Middle East and the Gulf.
They now live on the island of Cyprus.
Her work-in-progress is a novel inSiobhan Fallon is the author of the award-winning short story collection, You Know When the Men Are Gone, and the novel, The Confusion of Lang
Siobhan Fallon
Siobhan Fallon is the author of the PEN Center USA Literary Award in Fiction winner YOU KNOW WHEN THE MEN ARE GONE, and the recipient of the Indies Choice Honor Award and the Texas Institute of Letters Award for First Fiction. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post Magazine, Woman’s Day, Good Housekeeping, Military Spouse, The Huffington Post and NPR’s Morning Edition, among others. She was raised in Highland Falls, New York, just outside the gates of the United States Military Academy at West Point. She graduated from Providence College and spent a year at Cambridge University in England. After teaching English in Japan, she earned an MFA at the New School in New York City. She and her family moved to Jordan in , and they currently live in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Books by Siobhan Fallon
The Confusion of Languages
by Siobhan Fallon- FictionYou Know When the Men Are Gone
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