It Happened in Hoboken:Comic Tales From the Waterfront City

This is a collection of 21 comic tales set in Hoboken, New Jersey with characters as colorful and diversified as a nun who learns to master the use of profanity as a way of coping with heavy traffic while driving an old Ford truck, and a young boy who thinks he has committed adultry because he felt a girl's Immaculate Conception ring in his religion class. In another story It's Ten O'Clock: Have You Checked Your Children's Chains?, an Italian-American father defends himself against the charge of child abuse by arguing that chaining his daughter to a kitchen radiator was the only way to prevent her from using drugs and learning bad things in school. In short, this collection shows Flinn as a writer who provides entertaining insights into a typical yet atypical community and the people who live there.