A wickedly satiric battle between a complicated Jersey every man and his wealthy one-percenter brother-in-law could just be a domestic fight on steroids; or it could be a war for the economic soul of America. Told in the author's dark, gritty, and heartbreakingly ironic voice, Canaries breaks out as a tour-de-force of contemporary fiction in dark economic times. From the author: Everything changed when Wall Street's greediness went viral in 2008 and planted the seeds for an American revolution on Main Street. That's where a Harley-driving maniac named Freddie Breda-Moreno lived on the Jersey Shore. He was an unlikely leader of a revolution, although his childhood friends called him Sparky.Sparky's father had been doing a thirty-year stint in East Jersey State Prison. His beloved half-brother served as Sparky's surrogate father before he was killed in Iraq in 2006. So, initially, Sparky's greatest passion was to outwardly express his hatred for Muslims in general by performing a grandiose act of patriotism here in the States by burning down a mosque. That was until he found a more appealing opponent in his brother-in-law.Colonel State King was one of New Jersey's most influential businessmen. He had propelled Sparky's sister, Karen Breda-Moreno King, to mayor of South Nullibi City on the shore and re-furbished the town completely to become a shining tourist trap. But, his grand design—besides building a casino in North Nullibi—was to gain control of most of the city via shrewd leasing agreements, and then use eminent domain to extricate the stubborn, remaining residents, which would include his wife's very own family. When his imperialistic designs were revealed as nothing more than shell games fueled by a vicious Ponzi scheme, Sparky and his family take the lead in a people's revolt.