Leisure Living

Leisure Living follows the story of Joe Dubay, a thirty-ish Wall Street trader who thought that he had escaped the gravitational field of a mobile home park owned by his father when he left for college.  At the beginning of the book, Joe’s father falls ill and Joe travels to the borderlands of northern New York to manage the family business.  There, he is plunged into a bramble-bush of family secrets, decaying infrastructure, a predatory investment group, an old friend from his teens, her sons, and her abusive and dangerous brother and boyfriend.  

Leisure Living showcases Kaufmann’s ability to explore issues of perception, knowledge, causation and memory through the most unlikely of lenses.