James Bennett's wonderful caricature of some of the main characters in Arnold Falls. http://www.jamesbennettart.com  

A debut novel about a small town and its fear of change. Arnold Falls, a small town in upstate New York, is home to an array of residents, including celebrity chef Annie O’Dell, whose concerns are limited to the ratings of her cooking show and the state of her prune...

  A quirky ensemble piece, with memorable characters, budding and lifelong friendships and a sharp, good-natured sense of humour throughout.   I was attracted to Arnold Falls, Charlie Suisman’s debut novel, by the nods to Armistead Maupin and P.G. Wodehouse...

    Arnold Falls is a fictional place on the Hudson River founded by Hezekiah Hesper–a wayward settler who has left its modern citizens with a confusing legacy, as the town has no waterfall and its main street and cemetery were inexplicably named after the infamous...

Suisman’s debut is by turns hilarious and poignant as a mayoral election, a fight to prevent the construction of a tire factory, and efforts to save a charismatic turkey from becoming Thanksgiving dinner coincide. Arnold Falls, N.Y., is a small town rich in eccentric...

When I began writing Arnold Falls, I knew music would play a big part in the life of the town and so in the book.As it turns out, having put together a playlist of the songs name-checked in the book, there are 45 of them, from all over the map: Puccini, Florence + The...

I’d been writing about New York City for ages, when I found myself, a couple of months after the 2016 election, imagining a little town. Even though I was spending my time in a small town in the Hudson Valley, I was thinking about somewhere else, a place that—though I...