Noise · A Novel
“The world is an ugly place, and I can tell you now, I fit in just fine.”
Leon is deaf, a survivor of the merciless streets of Nigeria, and he feels no remorse. Ten years after the only woman he ever loved vanished into a lake, a postcard in her handwriting pulls him into the frozen underworld of New York City.
“Pure magic.”Best Thrillers“Ferocious, action-packed.”BlueInk Review“Read the book before Hollywood figures out how to make the movie.”New Podler Review“At times resembling the carefully crafted prose of Cormac McCarthy.”Best Thrillers“A force to be reckoned with.”NetGalley“Dynamite prose. So good it hurts.”Barry Friesen
The Work
All publications →
- NPR Best Book of 2014
- Pushcart Prize nominee, 2014
- Best of the Net nominee, 2013
- Million Writers Award
- Lascaux Prize for Short Fiction
- Winner, Fiction Attic Short Memoir Contest
- Finalist, Opium Bookmark Competition
Journal
All entries →- May 2014Pura VidaA teacher walks onto a stage in an upstate New York college hall. He sits and closes his eyes, presumably to meditate. We wait. And we wait. Fifteen minutes later he…→
- Dec 2013A few chapters from my second novel, RenRen knew the woman would be dead from the moment she sat at the table across from him. It’s in the way they approach, he thought to himself, as he watched her enter the…→
- Dec 2013Excerpt from NoiseI back the truck out of the garage and into a full-scale blizzard, the thick snow blowing horizontally and piling up against everything in its path. Though I slept for…→
- Oct 2013The NovelFor much of my writing life, I’ve had a special disdain for writers who insist that it’s easier to write a novel than a short story. After all, it takes me years to…→