Greetings from Asbury Park

By: Daniel H. Turtel

Narrated by: Karen Chilton, Will Damron

Winner of the Faulkner Society Award for Best Novel

In a small seaside city on the Jersey Shore, three half-siblings confront the death of a distant and bullying patriarch. They now have the chance to imagine new relationships and new futures, ones that would have been near-unthinkable while their father was alive.

Caught in their crossfire are the conservative religious communities that border Asbury Park, the longtime locals who have been pushed to the fringe by the shore’s revitalization, and the legendary town upon which the whole world seems to converge. Slowly, however, they come to understand that everything—their future, their happiness—depends on whether they can face themselves.

Wise, perceptive, and provocative, Greetings from Asbury Park is a remarkable literary debut in the tradition of great American novels such as Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio. It is a deep interrogation of place that depicts flawed characters as they break through to adulthood, truth, and to a moral relationship with the world.

©2022 Daniel Turtel (P)2022 Blackstone Publishing

Critic reviews

2020 Faulkner Society Award

so I grew up in Belmar

loved all the quirks of the region. the author really understands the mind set of the people who live and vacation there.

That said the story...
incest really!?

biggest eye roll ever! followed up by statutory rape.

come on!!