Alex Austin here. I'm a writer and teacher. The Permanent Press published my novel Nakamura Reality in 2016. It received a Publishers Weekly Starred Review. My other novels are The Red Album of Asbury Park (set in Asbury Park, NJ, during its Liverpool era) and The Perfume Factory (a realistic coming-of-age story. Kirkus Recommended). All the novels are available on Amazon in Kindle and print format.