Freddy and Anna lived in a house begrudgingly passed to them from her father’s Greenwich, Connecticut money. She devoted herself to him despite his wheezy, Red Hook upbringing, and bore him four children in as many years, one of whom is my grandfather.
Freddy loved Anna, until he no longer had her, and then he turned to embrace pursuits as ruinous as they were liberating. That’s when he met Caroline.
Set in New England, from the fisheries of Nova Scotia to the Erie Basin of Brooklyn and the bungalows of Long Beach, Freddy is historical fiction based on true events, the story of a husband and father turned hustler as a means to an end in the tumult of New York’s early-twentieth-century corruption, poverty and mass immigration.
Freddy 