The Last Summer in Brooklyn is a tender, bittersweet coming-of-age story set in a rapidly changing Williamsburg during the summer of 2019. Twenty-eight-year-old Tommy Russo, a lifelong pizza-maker still living in his grandparents’ rent-stabilized apartment, meets his neighbor Elena Morales, a recently divorced graphic designer. As the neighborhood faces rising rents, departing friends, and the quiet threat of gentrification, their slow-burning romance unfolds against block parties, rooftop nights, rainy Sundays, and pickup games in McCarren Park. Humorous, heartfelt, and deeply human, the novel captures the ache of loving a place—and a person—while knowing nothing lasts forever.
