Greetings from Asbury Park

by Daniel H. Turtel

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Pub Date Apr 05 2022 | Archive Date May 04 2022

Blackstone Publishing

General Fiction (Adult) | Literary Fiction

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Winner of the Faulkner Society Award for Best Novel

"Phenomenal."--Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“A remarkable debut from a talented writer.”--Tom Perrotta, New York Times bestselling author of Election and Little Children

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.

Winner of the Faulkner Society Award for Best Novel

"Phenomenal."--Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“A remarkable debut from a talented writer.”--Tom...

Advance Praise

“Greetings from Asbury Park is phenomenal… to summon the Shore - and Asbury Park, no less - in all its delirious breathtaking bull-headed complexity requires an artist of the first order and Turtel is such an artist. Greetings from Asbury Park is a novel to be cherished, a blazing summer for the heart and the mind.”

- Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“It takes some audacity to name your name book after a classic album, but Daniel Turtel earns the right. Greeting from Asbury Park is a remarkable debut from a talented writer—ambitious, moving, full of complicated, thorny characters, and enough Jersey Shore ambiance that you can almost smell the boardwalk.”

-Tom Perrotta, New York Times bestselling author of Election and Little Children

"A masterful, poetic blend of realism and storytelling. Turtel is the real deal--a verbal warrior who's already begun writing the next chapters in the saga of masculinity's struggle with itself."

-Austin Ratner, award-winning author of The Jump and In the Land of the Living

“Compact, stylish, and deeply felt, Greetings from Asbury Park examines relationships with precision, clarity and warmth, honoring the richness of both darkness and light, both fleeting moments and entire lives. A tremendous debut. “

-Rebecca Kauffman, author of The Gunners and Another Place You’ve Never Been