From the Back Cover
You don't have to live in New Jersey to recognize the people in Sullivan's stories. They are the librarians and tax assessors, attorneys and hot-dog vendors, poets and politicians that make every American town special.
In this time of ever-shorter news stories telling us everything that's wrong with the world, it's a nice change of pace to read about someone like Felix Addeo, who takes time out of his busy schedule to teach middle school kids what it's like to be an accountant. Or biomedical engineer Lois Ross, who twice a year leads a group of volunteers to clean up a local pond. Through richly detailed stories-a kind of writing that has all but disappeared from our local newspapers-about small-town people in extraordinary situations, Sullivan depicts the characters that enliven life in the Garden State.
About the Author
Al Sullivan is a staff writer for the Hudson Current and the Secaucus Reporter. He has won a number of awards from the New Jersey Press Association and the New Jersey Society of Professional Journalism.
