We're Not Down
About
Providence, Rhode Island. August 1981.
Ted Hollis is forty-two years old, and the brewery where he spent his entire adult life just closed its doors for good.
He's got a son heading to college in a month, a rat terrier who won't stop barking, and a refrigerator with one egg in it. He's also got a letter from the financial aid office sitting on the counter that he can't quite bring himself to open—and somewhere in the back of his mind, all the roads he didn't take.
Then an old friend comes back from Los Angeles, and the life Ted thought he'd already figured out starts to look a little different.
We're Not Down is a novel about a man, his hometown, and a moment when everything is ending and something else is perhaps just beginning.
Coming Summer 2026