Heavy Sugar

The latest from the "poet laureate of Brooklyn" is a zany, foul-mouthed, and tender-hearted screwball noir about a stolen baseball and the lengths people will go to find it. And themselves.

Thanksgiving Eve, 1991: Most things that lovable scoundrel Georgie Quinlan has tried to do in his life have gone horribly wrong. Marriage. Fatherhood. Most recently, an armed robbery. It's the last thing that has Georgie on the lam and back in Gravesend, Brooklyn, the sleepy Italian American enclave where...