McCann

I found McCann's style of writing weird but impacting. Both stories have their own little scenario of being in an awkward situation. It makes reader's think of how they would react to the situation that the narrator is in. This was really different compared to the rest of the stories we have read, because we know for a fact that this story is fiction and McCann does not have any authority to really make a story of fiction based off certain events from the past. He does have an Irish background, but it is not sure if he has actually ever experience any of these sort of circumstances. It is said that "Everything in This Country Must" was based off a story from his uncle. I still enjoyed the story and after looking around the internet, it says that most of his stories are like this. They include the themes of loss, remembrance and conflict between different cultures.

http://www.egs.edu/faculty/colum-mccann/biography/