Born in Ireland and raised in Holland, Joseph O'Neill writes regularly for The Atlantic Monthly and is the author of two previous novels, This Is the Life and The Breezes. O'Neill is also the author of the New York Times Notable Book Blood-Dark Track, a family history about the imprisonment of his grandfathers during World War II. Winner of the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction, O'Neill’s new novel was cited for its “richly accomplished prose and articulate portraits of characters in New York.”