Novel
Somewhere in Brooklyn
A boy steps out of the safer version of life and into 1970s Brooklyn, where every lesson comes with a price.
Books
The books.
These are the longer rides: Brooklyn, Jersey, bruised people, bad decisions, sharp talk, and the kind of rooms that never quite let anybody stay clean.
How to start
Best first picks
Somewhere in Brooklyn is the best first pick if you want the street-level pulse and the cleanest way into the voice.
Night Bird is leaner, darker, and the move if you want the room to close in fast.
And Then There's Lily is the pick if you want family damage, divided loyalties, and the emotional shrapnel that follows.
In the Wind is the pick if you want hunger, drift, and people making trouble worse by talking through it.
Novel
Night Bird
A diner cook is staring at the Vietnam draft while every voice around him keeps trying to tell him what kind of man to be.
Novel
And Then There's Lily
Twins, old family damage, and Lily, who throws the whole arrangement off balance.
Novel
In the Wind
A man with too much appetite and no brakes keeps pushing long after sense has left the room.
Story collection
Short Stack
Fourteen stories. Diners, memory, bad timing, and lines that land a beat before the bruise.