THE SLEEPY HOLLOW FAMILY ALMANAC

A powerful coming-of-age novel about a young man stuck in neutral.

In the spirit of novels by Nick Hornby and Tom Perrotta, a smart, funny debut about a disillusioned young man whose fledgling leap from post-adolescence to adulthood lands him back in an already over-burdened family nest. Calvin Moretti can’t believe how much his life sucks: he’s a twenty-four-year- old film school drop-out, living at home again, working as an assistant teacher at a pre-school for autistic kids. His insufferable go-getter older brother is also living at home, as is his kid sister, who’s still in high school and has just confided to Cal that she’s pregnant—and plans to keep the baby. What’s more, Calvin’s father, a career pilot, is temporarily grounded and obsessed with his own mortality. And his ever-stalwart mother is now crumbling under the pressure of mounting bills and the imminent loss of their Sleepy Hollow, NY, home: the only thing keeping the Moretti’s moored. Can things get worse? Oh yes. Which makes it all the more amazing that TTHE SLEEPY HOLLOW FAMILY ALMANAC is not only buoyantly fun but often very, very funny. In his debut novel, Kris D’Agostino has crafted an engrossing contemporary tale of a loopy but loving family and, in Calvin Moretti, he’s created a marvelously oddball anti-hero who really wants to do the right thing—if he can just figure out what it is. Kris D'Agostino was born in Westchester, New York. He received an MFA in Creative Writing from the New School University in New York City. His short fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and he was twice a finalist for the Glimmer Train Short Story Award.