A collection of 35 short stories set mainly in Hoboken, New Jersey
This collection is divided into five sections, each one distinctive. It takes the reader from the gritty, ultra-realistic streets and tenements of a city to a world of imagination where everything may or may not be of this world.
Excerpt
The thing I remember best about my mother was her fascination for peering through keyholes. Anytime there was the slightest hint of a commotion in the hallway outside our five-room railroad flat on Adams Street in downtown Hoboken, her face would light up like the night sky on the Fourth of July, and she would spring into action, tossing aside her broom or dish rag or whatever else she happened to be holding, and dash to the door. There she would drop to her knees, wedge her head beneath the heavy glass doorknob and with one large and expectant eye, spy to her heart's content on whatever was taking place at that moment on the landing.
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