Gabriel Cohen sent me this book and it’s really good. I haven’t finished it but I highly recommend his reading tonight. Cohen, author of "Red Hook", reads from his new Brooklyn novel, "Boombox",

tonight, June 13th, at Community Bookstore at 7:30.

Black and white, young and old, men and women, they
live in Brooklyn’s Boerum Hill, sharing a courtyard in
relative harmony. It’s what a former mayor liked to
call “the urban mosaic.”

There’s Carol Fasone, a secretary enjoying her new
marriage to a Bosnian immigrant. There’s Mitchell
Brett, a Wall Streeter transplanted from Manhattan’s
Upper East Side, trying to get his wife pregnant.
There’s Grace Howard, hoping for a promotion in her
corporate job, surprised to find herself beginning a
romance with a member of the Board. And then there’s
teenage Jamel Wilson, who buys a big sound system to
impress his friends from the projects around the
corner, blasts gangster rap into the backyard gardens,
and—over the course of one hot summer—pushes the
block’s friendships and alliances past the breaking
point.

We hope you can come! Gabriel Cohen, author of "Red
Hook", reads from his new Brooklyn novel, "Boombox",
tonight, June 13th, at Community Bookstore at 7:30.