Leisure Living

A Novel · Under the BQE Press · November 2026

Leisure Living follows the story of Joe Dubay, a thirty-ish Wall Street trader who thought that he had escaped the gravitational field of a mobile home park owned by his father when he left for college.

Advance Praise for Leisure Living:

J. Robert Lennon – Author of three short story collections and eleven novels, including Buzz Kill, Subdivision, and Broken River – It’s strange to call a novel about rehabbing a mobile home park a nail-biter, but this one sure is—I was on the edge of my seat (on the edge of bankruptcy, on the edge of town). Leisure Living isn’t just a lowkey real estate thriller, though, it’s a rich commentary on our economic moment, and a melancholy, life-affirming story of fathers and sons, brothers and sisters, husbands and wives that I’ll be thinking about for a long time. A great debut from distinctive and exciting new writer.

Laura Kasischke – Author of The Lifeguard, In a Perfect World, and Be Mine – In a few hundred years when people want to know what it was like in North America at this time, how we were at our worst and best, and why we either survived and thrived or did not, this book — artful and hilarious — will hold the answer.