After hours at Dockside, the yard lights are off and the tide is dropping, but Finch keeps a burner going on the dock. He feeds Charles, Anna, and Todd mackerel fresh off the pier with vegetables Anna grabbed from Pier Street Market, and he talks the way he rarely does when the shop is open. Finch starts in Vietnam, with a woman named Thuy and a memory that still catches on the way out. Then the story turns hard: a busted op, over half his unit gone, the rest scattered, and Finch alone with a satchel and the kind of Continue reading
Ira Finch