Review

Tilt a Whirl

by Chris Grabenstein

I love New Jersey. Seriously. Take Route 3 through Clifton and on the west side of the highway there's a great diner called The Tick Tock, which is impossible to pass up. Take the Garden State Parkway south to Red Bank and drive through downtown; you'll travel blocks without seeing a chain store. I even love Newark and Orange and Atlantic City. And Jersey women? They all come from heaven. And even though I'm not a beach guy, there's nothing like the Jersey coast --- with the resort towns, the vacationers, and the cotton candy. As Chris Grabenstein points out in his impressive debut novel, there are also amusement parks, with al