When the Furniture Comes

About the Book

As the bail out of 2008 neared, Tyler Hopkins, chief negotiator for Big Gnocchi Brother’s Inc., felt the press of the white whale beaching toward Main Street and feared the carcass’ implosion. Tyler’s BGB, Inc. foreman, Jamber, lead singer in an AC/DC cover band, is due in Family Court to remit forty-eight thousand dollars in back child support of which he is forty-two thousand dollars light. Limon, twenty-three year old American-Mexican immigrant, is the force of the Gotham Minors, a schist breaking division of Tyler’s company. Limon wields a one hundred and twelve pound sledgehammer over the hands of splitting maul cradler, Umberto, a sixty-two year old Puerto Rican transplant from the Bronx. The third member of the crew, light barer, key man and mule, is a rebellious scholar from Merida, who distinguishes the six mauls used by the minors to slab schist, by linking the names of the Apostles from the New Testament with those from the Gnostic Gospels--unbeknownst to the romantic scholar, he is also lunch fetch. It is the task of the Gotham Minors, breaking schist below the sidewalks of Manhattan, to clear enough room in the earth for the passage of a man’s head…without disturbing the neighbors.

About the Author

Kevin Moccia, born in Trenton, Michigan, graduated from the National Shakespeare Conservatory under the direction of Philip Meister. Kevin appeared on Broadway in Herb Gardner’s 1986 Tony Award Winning play, “I’m Not Rappaport”, and served as the Artistic Director of the Bach D’or Theater Company. Kevin’s full length plays include, “Winter’s Harvest”, “King Me!”, “No Gas”, “Shrove Tuesday”, “Anatole’s Leg”, “The Page”, “The Boiler”, and “A Higher Order”. His one-man shows include “The Last Vineyard: 2154”, and “The Unicorn Salesman” which was rehearsed live at open mics, poetry readings, and comedy club venues. Kevin’s two other novels include “The Beagle and the Hare”, a short novel written for young adults, and “The Glass Worlds”, an unfinished work started with the encouragement of Robert Fishback, a high school English Teacher. Special thanks to all the artists who have fed me encouragement and shared their love in the back alley corners of the milky way, to my loving and wonderful family, especially my wife Regina, and my two children “Captain” James and my editor and pathfinder, Katherine. Special thanks to Fay Simpson, Julia Salisbury and a substitute teacher named Ms. Eurema, who sent me to the front of the class in 8th grade to recite Plato’s Apology. The material was written not on the page, but in the marrow of my bones. I have followed this connection through hedge, desert, and wood, dependent on seasonal berries, roots, trail crumbs and friends.