Trip to the Quiet Room, a book trailer

“Murakami in Massachusetts” - Michael Joyce

It's a time travel yarn, a pastoral, part-detective story, a coming of age tale, a buddy fable, a rough and tumble look at the life of an ex-hockey enforcer, and a story of young girls adventuring through time.

Author: Matthew Hanlon

Genre: Slipstream Fiction

: 75,000 words

Trip to the Quiet Room takes place in or about the following locations:

Trip to the Quiet Room is sponsored by:

The Magic Funtime Butterfly Ranch

One of Trip to the Quiet Room's characters is an ex-hockey enforcer who may be suffering the effects of a career's worth of concussions, a rising concern in the ranks of contact sports these days:

Does Football Have a Future? - a look at the concussion crisis and the NFL
Ex-players sue NHL over concussions - a look at the action by former players to address how the National Hockey League handles possible brain trauma
Ex-IRB medical officer claims five-minute concussion rule 'totally discredited' - rugby isn't immune from the concussion epidemic and struggles in caring for players' who've suffered trauma during a match
Punched Out: The Death of Derek Boogaard - An excellent documentary from the New York Times on the death of Derek Boogaard, an NHL enforcer
Fighting to Fight - Harley Haggarty talks about fighting to fight, his journey through pro hockey.

The Trap

Matthew Hanlon

Matthew Hanlon is a graduate from the infamous Worcester County Young Writers' Conference ('92) and has written about his fictional experience fighting a yak in New York City, the time a man lived up his nostril, baseball, and dishwashers.

Trip to the Quiet Room is a love letter to his native New England, his two kids, and his wife. A 75,000 word, fictional love letter/menage à quatre?.

For more about this guy you can visit his author's page.

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