Greetings from Asbury Park by Turtel, Daniel H.

Winner of the Faulkner Society Award for Best Novel

In a small seaside city on the Jersey Shore, three half-siblings confront the death of a distant and bullying patriarch. They now have the chance to imagine new relationships and new futures, ones that would have been near-unthinkable while their father was alive.

Caught in their crossfire are the conservative religious communities that border Asbury Park, the longtime locals who have been pushed to the fringe by the shore's revitalization, and the legendary town upon which the whole world seems to converge. Slowly, however, they come to understand that everything--their future, their happiness--depends on whether they can face themselves.

Wise, perceptive, and provocative, Greetings from Asbury Park is a remarkable literary debut in the tradition of great American novels such as Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio. It is a deep interrogation of place that depicts flawed characters as they break through to adulthood, truth, and to a moral relationship with the world.

Author: Daniel H. Turtel
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 04/05/2022
Pages: 262
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.35h x 5.83w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781799956761

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 02/15/2022 pg. 16
Publishers Weekly 02/28/2022