Nicholas Rinaldi teaches at Fairfield University, In Connecticut, where he lives with his wife, Jackie. His work includes two novels, Bridge Fall Down and The Jukebox Queen of Malta, and three collections of poetry: The Resurrection of the Snails, The Luftwaffe in Chaos and We Have Lost Our Fathers.
'In a city with eight million stories, this is one worth picking up' * The Wall Street Journal * 'A rich, ambitious book ... Rinaldi conjures a cosmopolitan New York that is violent and tender' * The Economist * 'Memorable ... richly textured ...paints a complex, compelling portrait of the ways we flirt with the American Dream' * People * 'Geography is destiny in Nicholas Rinaldi's sprawling, elegant study.... [The] characters' histories collide with real world events and with one another' * New York Times Book Review *