Ethan Laughman 
Spinning Away from the Center 
Stories about Homesickness and Homecoming from the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction

These stories offer layered, perceptive takes on what home means to us. The people we meet in these stories are often traveling to and from home—thinking about where they have come from, where they are headed, and how that journey will impact their futures. Although the stories approach homecoming and homesickness through varied moods and styles, they all come around to confronting a shared need: a place to call home.

About the author

SIAMAK VOSSOUGHI is an Iranian-American writer whose collection Better Than War came out in 2015. The collection was shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. He has received a fictionfellowship from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. He lives in San Francisco.