Brooklyn author Michael Thomas’ book Man Gone Down was selected as one of the ten best books of 2007 by the New York Times Book Review. Thomas’ book is about a young black father of three in a biracial marriage on the eve of his thirty-fifth birthday looking for a job and a way to support the upscale lifestyle of his family. He finds himself broke, estranged from his family, and living in the Brooklyn bedroom of a friend’s six-year-old son.

Thomas is also one of the 2007 Park Slope 100 (which will be released on December 6th). Here’s my blurb:

Michael Thomas because your book Man Gone Done is written in a masterful first-person voice that is intense, poetic, angry, vulnerable, real, and full of thoughtful rage about race and class, marriage and love in New York City.