Just my bitching luck.

Young Neil fades back to his walk-up Brooklyn flat-solid brownstones; 4” x 4”'s hold up five-story scaffoldish porches full of tricycles, billowing clothesline shirts, and old lost aromas of gefilte fish, sauerkraut, and peach pie.

Peter Cameron's Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You has been touted as the current generation's Catcher in the Rye (both the Chbosky and Cameron titles provide teen dick lit alternatives to the many adolescent chick lit offerings).

[…] and then of Sea-Coal and other necessary Fewel, fit for the working or melting of these Metalls; […]