Once he saw his father get so mad that he punched a bare-fisted hole through three sheets of standing drywall that was how Carmine Piccolo felt about federal snooping motherfuckers coming into his fucking house and leaving their motherfucking shit behind. Nothing of mine.” Pick left out that sometimes they didn’t take anything-that people just as often brought things in, and planted them there. She thought about Oneida, and how people would just leave their doors open there, and not even think about it. So, his dad had floodlights put in, among other things, to make people think twice next time. Once in a while they’d been hit by burglars. “At nighttime they can whiteout the whole place if they have to.” She asked why they’d have to do that, and Pick gave her about a tenth of the reason. She pointed to some fixtures in the row of tall maples framing the driveway. He switched directions, and not long after, they were at his house-a place Pick took no one. “Sure,” was Laura’s answer, and it spiked Pick’s hopes that she said it so quickly. Pick agreed but didn’t want to he wished Laura wouldn’t want to either, but she’d already said she did. The bus pulled away, and Laura said she guessed she and Pick should probably go back to the school. Proof that unlikely pairings can be the best sometimes. They sparked each other, and each seemed to come much more to life when the other was around. Griffin knew what he was doing what both of these guys needed, more than any- thing else, was a friend. Then, when Pick showed up, things got better. He was sadder, sapped-the light that was always there, you could only see occasionally now- and never for very long. And no one could deny, it was a different Goody who came back that fall. Laura had tried to get down to Hershey to be with Goody during the summer, back when his dad died, but her parents wouldn’t take her and wouldn’t let her go all that way alone-so she had to wait until school started again to see him. This was a standard Jewish tradition, and the family was crystal clear on having him be there they were counting on him to not repeat his performance from the funeral.

It was a memorial service, Goody had told them, for his father, and it went with the unveiling of the headstone. Like they’re having the funeral all over again. He made his way to a window seat and sat down.

They found the right bus to Hershey and watched Goody climb on.

In Attachments, out May 11, Arch tells the story of three students who return to their boarding school in Pennsylvania after their beloved school’s dean Henry Griffin suffers a stroke and is put in a coma. Told in alternating points of view and time frames, best friends Stewart (“Goody”) Goodman, Sandy (“Pick”) Piccolo, and Laura Appleby - the girl they both love - are left to not only grapple with Henry’s tragedy but must also come to terms with longtime secrets and revelations being revealed, which could ultimately impact the dean’s 18-year-old son.īelow, The Hollywood Reporter shares an excerpt.

Now Arch is ready to go from the big screen to the bookshelf with a debut novel called, Attachments (Sparkpress).

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