Sparrow Beach

Living on Long Island's fast-developing East End, local builder Michael Dorian is forced to reckon: with a building industry being overrun by Manhattan developers; with his failed marriage and teenage daughter riddled with anxiety; with the nature of a hauntingly beautiful place that offers opportunity but no longer feels like home. 

Sparrow Beach is about the dark cloud of excess that threatens to consume Long Island's East End, and about the patchwork of characters who live beneath it, those who adapt, finding new paths amidst the changing landscape, and those who refuse to. 

Praise for Sparrow Beach:

"A compelling exploration of modern life, tinged with the wistful knowledge of how soon our days become yesterdays. The things we care about most-love, family, work, finding our place in a world that won't stand still-are at the heart of this novel, and I was drawn into its fictional rendering of Long Island's East End from the very first page."

--Tom Hazuka, author of

The Road to the Island and The City of the Disappeared

"Raebeck is skilled in communicating his characters' complex connections to Long Island's East End, taking time to develop detailed psychological portraits. The result is a clever and highly readable novel . . . Intuitive, thoughtful writing . . . a shrewd tale of revitalization."

      --Kirkus Reviews

Producer:  Shelby Raebeck

Shelby Raebeck, who grew up in Amagansett on Long Island's East End, has published stories in literary magazines, anthologies, and textbooks, both in the U.S. and abroad, and is the author of the short story collection, Louse Point: Stories from the East End. Sparrow Beach Is his first novel.