Decline of Fishes, A Novel
This carefully constructed, layered book, so tightly focused in on Gloucester, MA, is nonetheless a book of universal importance, especially in our country at this moment in time.  --Rae Francoeur, Cape Ann BeaconDecline of Fishesis an arresting work of story telling, which functions as a crash course in local politics and economics, while managing to be neither preachy nor fact-clogged. --Alex Miller, North Shore Art ThrobAnastas holds before us the specter of a centuries-old industry and the way of life it fostered, done in by rampant development, and asks that attention be paid before another American tragedy unfolds. --Lucy Honig, author of Waiting for RescueDecline of Fishesis a love letter to Gloucester and its citizens, rife with warning amidst that deep love, set within a powerful struggle against annihilation of the last remnant of spirit of place. --Michael Rumaker, author of Black Mountain Days