06/14/2026
"Joel Martin is a twenty-four year old construction worker who lives with his mother and struggles to provide for his four year old son. Longing to break free from the bleak confines of Langley, Pennsylvania, the dried-up industrial town where he has lived his entire life, he commits a series of burglaries with his brother, Derek, in hopes of finding more.
Faced with legal troubles, problems with his ex, and the possibility of being separated from his son, Joel begins to unravel, and the unthinkable occurs when his life intersects with Christopher Roche, a freshman at Waylan University. "Kings Row" explores class disparities as they exist today and the tragic events that inevitably unfold when people are driven by anger and resentment. Rich in character and carefully observed, "Kings Row" is a gripping story of two Americas growing farther apart."
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"Kings Row" (paperback, $18.99) was written by Jeffrey Voccola, Associate Professor of Fiction Writing and the Director of the Writing Program at Kutztown University.