• Recipient of a 2015 PEN/Hemingway Award Honorable Mention - Chiusano … [has] formidable talents. It will be worth watching what he does when he leaves the neighborhood. –John Williams, The New York Times

An astute, lively, and heartfelt debut story collection by an exciting new voice in contemporary fiction

Marine Park–in the far reaches of Brooklyn, train-less and tourist-free–finds its literary chronicler in Mark Chiusano. Chiusano’s dazzling stories delve into family, boyhood, sports, drugs, love, and all the weird quirks of growing up in a tight-knit community on the edge of the city. In the tradition of Junot Diaz’s Drown, Stuart Dybek’s The Coast of Chicago, and Russell Banks’s Trailerpark, this is a poignant and piercing collection–announcing the arrival of a distinct new voice in American fiction.