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from: Inkwater Press
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Source: Linda Weinerman
Published: April, 2008

Inkwater Press publishes An Irish Experience, by Howard G. Franklin

Inkwater Press is delighted to announce the publication of An Irish Experience: Travel Tales Flowing from History, Humor & the Search for Home by Howard G. Franklin.

Poignant and funny, the book chronicles Franklin’s three-week journey through the Emerald Isle in 2001, where he was when the terror attacks of 9/11 occurred.

Weaving Irish history, culture and literature with his own travels around the country – including stops at local bakeries and glimpses of beautiful women, along with the historical sites – Franklin’s journey is richly narrated and charmingly self-deprecating. More than a travel memoir, An Irish Experience shares Franklin’s own search for home, love, and belonging in a way that every reader will relate to.

In the book’s foreword, New York Times bestselling author Nuala O’Faolain writes that Franklin’s “love for the Irish way of life is so genuine that it allows him to belong here … his energy and enthusiasm for sharing his observations and insights into Irish history and culture … makes him a warm-hearted spokesperson for the sights, sounds, and smells that form its magic.”

For more information, visit www.howardgfranklin.com and also read an interview with the author, titled "A Fairy Tale Come True," in the Lake Oswego Review.

About the author:

A native of Los Angeles, Howard G. Franklin received his undergraduate degree from the University of Southern California and his law degree from the University of California, Berkeley. He currently resides in the Portland, Oregon, metro area.

His short stories and poems have appeared in A Different Drummer, Razem, The Lake Oswego Review, The Sandwich Generation, Silver, Quill, Nomad’s Choir, Single Vision, Poets at Work, Grit, Eureka Literary Journal, PoetSpeak Portland Anthology and Verseweavers: the Oregon State Poetry Association Anthology.

He has also appeared as a guest poet in PoetSpeak’s Reading Series at Portland State University and in the Northwest Poetry Coalition’s Celebration of National Poetry Month in Vancouver, Washington.

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