The Road to Roma is Now on Sale

The most recent publication of Dave Kuhne, The Road to Roma is now available on Amazon and other book sites and stores.

Dave Kuhne's The Road to Roma and Other Stories takes you into the gritty, often poignant worlds of a Fort Worth car wash owner, a pair of college students hitching their way to Mexico, and a young man who lets his misplaced love and ambition pull him into the drug culture of post-Vietnam-era Austin. These award-winning stories showcase the talent and wit of a consummate Texas writer whose fiction reflects an intimate sense of character and place.

The Reviews are in for The Road to Roma

Each story in Roma evokes Texas unerringly, from the Valley to Austin in the 70s to . . . Dallas in the 50s. Mexico also looms large, literally and figuratively. . . . Kuhne's characters are almost as strong as his sense of place: the no-nonsense car wash owner of "Magic Coins" who learns to respect a little voodoo; the man in "No Scars Whatsoever" terrified of fecund female power; Gary of the eponymous "The Road to Roma" who learns to assert and trust himself once again. Texans will enjoy these stories, you'll recognize your friends and family in the characters. Just don't tell them that.
      -- Texas Book Lover

An "excellent collection of short stories . . . mostly set in Dallas, Fort Worth, and Austin. . . . The stories reflect the writer's strong sense of place and character . . . and their focus is on the deeper and sometimes transformative moments that can occur in ordinary people's lives."
      --Si Dunn, Dallas Morning News

Dave Kuhne

Dave Kuhne is the author of The Road to Roma (Ink Brush Press, 2011), African Settings in Contemporary American Novels (Greenwood Press, 1999), and principal editor of descant: Fifty Years (TCU Press, 2008).
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