Join us for an engaging in-conversation and book signing with author Patrick Strickland, a Plano Native!

Patrick Strickland is an award-winning journalist and author from Plano, Texas who has reported from some fifteen countries across Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa, covering immigration, the rise of the far right, humanitarian catastrophes, armed conflict, and more.

In this debut collection, celebrated journalist Patrick Strickland’s vivid and character-driven stories are as true to life as his award-winning reportage.

In A History of Heartache, boys grow up fast in the blazing heat of North Texas, and men grow old before their time. A wayward son rides shotgun into a night he can’t take back. A janitor at an abortion clinic can’t outrun a ghost—or a camera. Strickland writes with clear-eyed realism and unsparing craftsmanship about common people—fathers and sons; widowers and junkies—poised on the knife-edge of hope.

This is one you don’t want to miss!

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