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Novels

Fundamentals of Rage for the Modern White Male

On a warm, sunny, spectacular day on the backroads of Vermont, Benjamin Dimes’ two-ton pickup slams into the yielding hood of David Rabinowitz’s family sedan.

Over the following year, as David seeks a reckoning for the damage done to him and his loved ones, he finds himself on yet another collision course with Dimes, one with consequences that are in turns comic, tragic, and absurd. Set against a backdrop of violent culture clashes, a failing economy, and a system of democratic norms strained to the breaking point, Fundamentals of Rage portrays two very different men as they struggle for identity, dignity, and justice in a world that seems increasingly unwilling to meet them even half way.

The Fried Liver Defense

When a cop throws open the front door of Mickey Gold’s Brooklyn apartment at five o’clock in the morning, vaults the couch, and asks how to get to the roof, Mickey does the natural thing. He points up.

This seemingly innocuous gesture will draw Mickey into a criminal conspiracy involving a corrupt borough president, an ersatz Doctor of Science named Avram Abramovich, his henchman Big Vova (think Lurch from The Addams Family, but with less personality) and Mickey’s downstairs neighbor Claude, a graduate student in computer science who studies Russian programming languages. The dead ones.

But if Mickey can turn it all into a compelling story for his swiftly failing Brooklyn newspaper, he just might be able to redeem himself in the eyes of the two people who mean the most to him — his estranged wife and son. That is, if he can do it without getting them all killed.