Jill Eisenstadt returns to her native Rockaway, Queens to expose a time, a town, and a family at their most vulnerable. Here, the Glassmans believe they’ve found refuge from post 9/11 Tribeca until ninety-year-old murderer Rose appears to reclaim their beach house. Swell examines the lengths people go — hilariously and tragically — just to feel safe. Learn more…
Timmy and Chowderhead and Peg are lifeguards. They spend summers sitting in those tall chairs, smoking dope and staring at the waves, swatting insects, tormenting seagulls. Winters they work shit jobs like unloading trucks at Mickey’s Deli. At night, winter and summer, they drink. Drink and get rowdy. Then there’s Alex, the girl who gets away, not only from old boyfriend Timmy but also from “Rotaway”-on scholarship to a rich-kid’s college in New England. One midsummer night when the four are reunited, tensions erupt in feats of daring and self-destruction during the wild, cathartic, near-sacred lifeguard ritual known as the Death Keg. From Rockaway was sold to five countries and translated into four languages and has now been reissued! Learn more…
“She’s really, really rich. Besides, I love her,” is Sam’s explanation for proposing to Claire, a stranger to all his family and friends. The news of this surprising engagement instantly travels through the seafood joints, beauty parlors, pet stores and pizza parlors of Sidehill, Queens, launching a series of comic misadventures that send-up the rituals of mating and dating. Learn more…
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