The Town Crazy
By Suzze Roche

"Singer-songwriter Roche probes the secrets of a small American town in this immersive character-driven tale. In 1961, the usually serene Hanzloo, Pa., and its Catholic residents are unsettled after Lil O'Brien, a frustrated poet and the mother of seven-year-old Alice, develops what her husband, Jim, describes as a 'disease of the soul.'… Roche's deep understanding of [the characters] will keep readers engaged all the way to the end." – Publishers Weekly

 "The Town Crazy casts a strong spell, and I don't think I've shaken it off yet, nor do I want to. Suzzy Roche understands so much about other people's lives; her fiction, just like her singing and songwriting, is thrilling, beautiful, and shattering." —Meg Wolitzer, Author of, most recently, The Female Persuasion