Tollbooth : A Novel (2013)

Jimmy Saare collects tolls on the New Jersey Parkway. He’s had a mental snap, as a result, is becoming un-controllably fixated with the 19 year old Gena who works the copy machine at Officetown. Despite his wife Sarah’s impending pregnancy, Jimmy pursues his desire for Gena, unexpectedly becoming more entangled with the strange manipulations of an anarchistic teenager, Kid with Clownhead, who wants to start his own destructive cult when he grows up.

Novel
307 pages
Published by Piscataway House (2013)