The Fire Escape Belongs In Brooklyn: A novel based on The Fire Escape Stories

The year is 1968. The world is crumbling around Mike Burns, a disillusioned Brooklyn youth attending his second year of college. His cousin and constant childhood companion, Sally-Boy, went missing two years ago. The two were incredibly close-they called themselves twins because they were born the same day-and Mike still thinks about Sally-Boy relentlessly, even talks to him...but nobody needs to know about that.

Adding to Mike's problems, his father angrily nags him to cut his hair; a profe...