Rogers Park

A shortcut led to the longest six weeks of Brian Casey's life. A self-proclaimed Alfred Hitchcock junkie, Brian has spent his entire life in Rogers Park, an urban enclave of North Chicago. He longs for a Hitchcockian revenge on the father who deserted him as a child. Strolling into the Farwell-Pratt alley on a bitter afternoon, little does Brian know that the decision to take this particular shortcut will initiate a chain of life-altering events. The first link in the chain is a falling trash bag. The final link is a choice: forgive his father or watch him die. The links between - kinked and tangled, as happens when chains are kept in closets with skeletons - include addiction, F. Scott Fitzgerald, plagiarism, blackmail, and murder. Rogers Park is a novel about the long road to forgiveness and the harrowing journey one man must endure to reach this destination.