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The Cold Hard Light tells the story of a young father, named H, who becomes obsessed with the man who assaulted his sister.
Set in present-day Boston, the novel follows H as he lives and works in the fast-gentrifying neighborhoods of Brighton, Roxbury, Somerville, and the Seaport. H is a semi-professional hockey player whose career has stalled. His girlfriend is suffering from postpartum depression that he’s either unable or unwilling to diagnose. He has no career prospects, and he’s trapped working increasingly demeaning gig-jobs just to make rent. Then, H learns that the man who committed the assault—a man named Benjamin Williams—has been released from prison and is out and walking the streets of Boston.
The Cold Hard Light explores the decadence and inequality of modern urban living, the racial double-standard that has perverted the American justice system, and the destructive folly in seeing violence as anything but a means to more violence.
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Christopher Amenta is a writer from Boston. He received his undergraduate degree from The College of the Holy Cross, where he was awarded the James H. Reilly Memorial Purse, and his MFA from Boston University, where he received the Saul Bellow Award and was named a Leslie Epstein Global Fellow. His fiction has appeared in Redivider, The Evening Street Press, and 236 Magazine, and he’s written for Boston College Magazine, Holy Cross Magazine, and for Northeastern University. He has taught creative writing at Boston University. The Cold Hard Light is his first novel and will be available from Blackstone Publishing in August of 2022.
For more information about Christopher's work, please email Christopher Vyce at The Brattle Agency.