Circus Home
In 1978 I used to drive from New Brunswick, New Jersey to Baltimore, Maryland every few weeks. Since I was a starving student, I routinely drove the backroads to save money on turnpike tolls. Each time I made the trip, someplace deep in South Jersey back country, I passed a billboard standing in a deserted lot that read “Future Site of The New Jersey Home for Retired Circus and Carnival Performers.” I didn’t know if it was real, if there were actually plans to build such a home or if it was some sort of avant-garde performance art. For forty years I thought there was a novel there. I finally wrote that novel.
Circus Home.
Circus Home captures the lives of the residents of The New Jersey Home for Retired Circus and Carnival Performers through an array of stories that take place from 1887 to the present in a sweep of locations across the world. The novel brims with rich detail that illuminates a unique world populated by lively characters you will enjoy being close to as you savor their life stories. If you enjoyed Gower’s The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock, Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Doctorow’s Ragtime or even Dickens’s The Pickwick Papers, you will delight in Circus Home!
Acclaim for Circus Home
WINNER 2024 Speak Up Talk Radio Firebird International Book Award for Humor
WINNER 2023 e-Lit GOLD MEDAL for Literary Fiction
WINNER- 2023 BookFest Book Award for Historical Fiction
WINNER- Book of the Year in Magical Realism from the BREW Fiction Book Excellence awards (AUSTRALIA)
WINNER- Genre Award -Literary Fiction- 2023 Indies Today Awards
SEMI-FINALIST for The Mark Twain Award for Humor and Satire
LONG-LISTED for CIBA’s Goethe Award for Historical Fiction
FINALIST FOR American Writing Awards Book of the Year
NOMINATED FOR THE Pacific Book Awards in Historical Fiction
NOMINATED FOR THE 2023 International Book Award for Literary Fiction
NOMINATED FOR THE 2023 North Street Book Prize for Genre Fiction
NOMINATED FOR THE 2024 Wishing Shelf Award for Adult Fiction (UNITED KINGDOM)
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RATED 5.0 out of 5 STARS on Barnes & Noble