Leisure Living: a novel

By John L. Kaufmann

Joe Dubay has spent his adult life turning pain into numbers. On Wall Street, he's a vice president with a talent for arbitrage and a talent for forgetting where he came from-- a crumbling mobile home park in upstate New York. But when a call from a Syracuse hospital drags him back to Leisure Living Estates, Joe is forced to confront the father he's avoided for a decade and the community he's tried to erase from memory. The park is falling apart, its finances a mess, and its residents wary of the prodigal son in a suit. Joe's only allies are Val, the half-sister he never knew he had, and Des, the woman whose family his father once drove out-- ending their teenage romance and setting the course for both their lives. As Joe and Val dig through their father's secrets and face down a predatory lender intent on swallowing the park, Joe must decide what matters more: salvaging the last asset he has left, or finally building something real with the people he once left behind. Leisure Living is a sharp, unflinching novel about inheritance, community, and the price of escape-- where the real work isn't in saving a business, but in learning how to belong.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H13YWQN9
• ISBN13: 9798991122054
• Release Date: November 2026
• Publisher: Under the BQE Press
• Length: 362 Pages