Publisher's Synopsis
Wars in Iraq and in Afghanistan, a housing boom and bust: the past decade has taken its toll on the working-class Massachusetts town of Wequaquet, a place where love and pride are closely twinned and dangerously deployed. In his debut collection, Patrick Dacey recounts the lives of neighbours and friends as they brush up against each other, searching - privately and collectively - for an almost out-of-reach version of the American Dream.
