A collection of fairly dark and refreshingly frank autobiographical short-stories, by veteran public radio broadcaster Mike Feder. New York Son recounts those significant and difficult episodes in the author's life that he is willing to share. The episodes do not run in a linear fashion and events can precede those depicted in a previous story. With the occasional urge to cross-reference, one is compulsively immersed in a fascinating engagement with the chequered life of the likeable Mike Feder.
Occasionally we may find another person's journey to have very recognisable characteristics to that of our own, although it is only when a similar approach to facing events is apparent that a chord is firmly struck. Any reader new to Mike Feder may be assured that these really are truly great stories that deserve to be read and enjoyed.
The collection has subsequently been revised by Mike Feder, and re-published in 2013 with the new title of A Long Swim Upstream. This later volume includes an addition story previously unpublished.