Above the Gutter

About the Book

Above the Gutter is a novel about roofers. Some roofers fall from the above and below the gutter and live to tell the tale, others don’t. It’s the difference between hitting a handrail or landing in a bush.

Shovelhead cracks the whip to get the roof on before the storm. Sparky and Freddie work side by side slapping down the asphalt shingles and trade insults. Accordion lumps seventy-pound bundles up the ladder. Freddie reveals to Sparky that he’s in love with his sister, Brenda. Sparky laughs and tells him she’ll never date a blue-collar bum. Freddie feels trapped in his profession and only a seismic event will catapult him out of his rut and into the arms of Sparky’s sister.

About the Author

Sean Devlin, a finalist in the HarperCollins national “Bestseller Contest,” and a graduate of Vermont College’s MFA in Writing Program invites you up onto the slippery asphalt roofs of West Essex . His novel Above the Gutter was picked as a finalist from over seven thousand submissions from across the country.