It all starts with a place.
Where I’ve been is what I write about.
My childhood home in New Jersey, a small college in Ohio, some islands in the Pacific, parts of Europe and Southeast Asia. Cities like New York, Manila, Vienna. I visit, I revisit and I never quite get a place out of my system, wondering what life is like there, what my life would be like, the costs and benefits of leaving, of staying. Imagining possibilities. I keep traveling, leaving a piece of myself behind wherever I go. Often, it’s a book...
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Kirkus Reviews is applauding A Call From Jersey
as ”heartfelt, funny and poignant.”
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A Call From Jersey, my new novel, is part of an old story with a long-delayed happy ending. It draws on my New Jersey home, my German immigrant family, my uncles and cousins on the wrong side of World War II. Also, boxing--especially Max Schmeling, who trained at a camp a few miles from my childhood home. First written 20 years ago and long put away, I took another look at the urging of my agent, Matt Bialer. For all its early faults, A Call From Jersey spoke to me and I spent all summer with it. It is good to have it finally here, in hand.