New York: Touchstone / Simon & Schuster, (2003). First edition - The author's first novel, issued as a trade paperback original and set during the last weekend of the summer of 1984. Hank Toohey, "a thirteen-year-old altar boy, is an incessant smart-ass with a deep love of life...and other four-letter words.. . Everyone up and down St. Patrick Street, Henry's claustrophobic Irish-Catholic block in Philadelphia -- with its seventy-eight row homes, seventy-eight skinny mile-high lawns, seventy-eight statues of saints, and seventy-eight Mondale-Ferraro signs -- knows that the Toohey family is falling apart." 286 pp plus a reading guide.