"Rockin' the Bronx has a headlong momentum and street-level immediacy, teeming with drama, romance, and politics."

—Philadelphia Inquirer

"Pitting the lilt of an Irish brogue against the jazzy rhythm of pimps and drug dealers in the Bronx of the early 1980s, Irish-American author and playwright Kirwan begins this roman a clef with arresting musicality."

—Publishers Weekly

"A tremendous rock n roll saga. . .The prolific Kirwan offers writing about the transformative and curative powers of music and performance that is brilliant on its own, but his lovingly rendered portrait of American and Irish social and political realties in the 1980s is both brutal and magical."

—Library Journal

"Larry Kirwan writes with all the charm of his music. This is Angela's Ashes for a new generation."

—Thomas Keneally

"Rockin’ the Bronx is a tragic tale of home-from-home and heartbreak . . . The city that Kirwan presents is so real you can feel the humidity in the air as you read, and the characters are fully-formed and soulful . . . Well worth a read if you like your pints black and your whiskey Irish."

—New York Journal of Books