Exploring marital roles, complex family legacies, abuse, and generational trauma, the interconnected characters and stories move through time and space, as VanBaale catches ordinary people in extraordinary moments of revelation.

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"Compelling, devastating, yet often bleakly funny, Release of Information explores the depths that lie behind every 'Midwest nice' smile."

—Sean Adams, author of The Thing in the Snow

 

“VanBaale writes beautifully . . . a fascinating network of lives.”

—Amy Lee Lillard author of Exile in Guyville