Summer in Red Hook, Brooklyn, an isolated blue-collar neighborhood where hipster gourmet supermarkets push against tired housing projects and the East River opens into the bay. Bored and listless, fifteen-year-olds June and Val are looking for fun. Forget the boys, the bottles, the coded whistles. V[...]

When Mel Snow meets Toby Warring in a roadside bar, she is instantly drawn to the brilliant magician whose hands pull poker chips from thin air and conjure castles out of desert sands. They marry in the shadow of Las Vegas, where Toby hopes to make it big. Mel knows that magicians are a dime a dozen[...]