Concrete Fever

Concrete Fever by Nathaniel Kressen

First paperback edition, 2013; Reprint, 2014

Best of the Best, Stand Book Store

Bestseller, Henry Miller Library

Book Tag-line:

Two troubled teenagers meet on a rooftop in post-9/11 New York City, then decide to play out a fantastical romance over the course of one night in a frantic, animalistic search for magic and redemption.

Book synopsis:

On the night he decides to jump off his Upper West Side rooftop, a prep school teen encounters a lost girl dancing on the ledge. They split cigarettes, spill secrets, and hatch an unexpected plan: to play out a romantic relationship over the course of one night, and discover whether magic can truly exist. As the game propels them through scattered haunts of the city, the line that separates fantasy from reality blurs, leading each to reconsider what is real, what is illusion, and whether the dawn will bring with it a new beginning or a violent end.

In his triumphant debut, which landed on Strand Book Store's Best of the Best table and remained there for over three years, Nathaniel Kressen weavesa real-time psychological love story, introducing two unforgettable characters searching for meaning in post-9/11 New York City.