From a serial killer in Philadelphia to the shit of Vietnam,
Tom Faustman’s first two books in his self-
With the recent release of the third book in the series, and
the first chronologically, “Dylan’s Chase” moves to a more nostalgic place of
time: the basketball court of Drexel Hill Elementary School.
What Faustman deemed a “hotbed” of activity in the 1960’s at
Shadeland Avenue and State Road when he was growing up, it encouraged him to
write a story about the budding competitive nature of basketball and the
stories of the people who played there.
“It was a really magical time in my life and the lives
playing at this basketball court and the friendships that developed out of it,”
Faustman said, who currently resides in Connecticut. “It was such a fun period
of our lives and I wanted to tell the story of the fun part of it, but young men
are more sensitive to the difficult lives of the people around them. It’s kind
of the real world.”
