FRED’S SECOND THOUGHTS
For those of you who are unfamiliar with my first novel, “Fred: Buffalo Building of Dreams,” let me introduce myself. I am Fred, a 125 year old building located at the corner of Niagara Street and Potomac Avenue, on the West Side of Buffalo, N.Y. In time you will come to know how I got my name and how I achieved the ability to narrate my stories.
My original stories were set in the early Twentieth Century, and involved people who occupied my apartments over those same years. These tenants arrived from all over the world: immigrants from Europe, refugees and descendants of enslaved peoples of Africa. Although the League of Nations had not yet been created, I had my own League of Nations of Hope. Like my tenants, I was a survivor of those very hard times, and like them, I endured.
Of course, it was impossible to tell all of their stories, stories of success and failure, sadness and joy. Now, several years after my first novel, my co-authors, James Costa and Frances Schmidt, are working on a new novel, not yet titled. We expect it to be completed and published in 2025.
Best,
Fred