~ Trade Paperback
~ Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction - 2009
Set in a beautiful but economically devastated Pennsylvania steel town, American Rust is a novel of the lost American dream and the desperation, as well as the acts of friendship, loyalty, and love that arises from its loss, and two young men, bound to their hometown, who crave an escape . . .
Evoking John Steinbeck’s novels of restless lives during the Great Depression, American Rust delves into the contemporary American heartland at a moment of profound unrest and uncertainty about the future. It's a dark but lucid vision, a moving novel about the bleak realities that battle our desire for transcendence and the power of love and friendship to redeem us.
“Powerful and gripping in the great American tradition that stretches from Ernest Hemingway to Cormac McCarthy.” -- The Washington Post