About the book: year / What if the plot of “The Quiet Don” had been developed by a modern American writer? Another continent, another country, another century, another river. The same family drama. Instead of Don Cossacks - workers of the Manhattan stock exchange. In the thick of things is a spoiled young man named Gregory. Fans of the works of Francis Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway will appreciate the satirical drama Sirens Over the Hudson, set during the financial crisis..