{"id":85,"date":"2026-02-18T17:19:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T17:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/authorwebsitepublishing.xyz\/Paul\/?page_id=85"},"modified":"2026-02-26T16:37:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T16:37:38","slug":"the-book","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/authorwebsitepublishing.xyz\/Paul\/the-book\/","title":{"rendered":"The Book"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Pete Dominico's marriage is over. His wife Holly just walked out of their last counseling session screaming that he never loved her, and the counselor's only advice is to let her go. So Pete does what any desperate man with nothing left would do. He stuffs everything he owns into two bags, gets on the first bus out, and ends up in Brooklyn, New York.\n

\nBut this is not where the story starts. It starts in a bar, where Pete meets Holly for the first time and tells her he is having some serious roommate problems. What follows is the story of how a guy who had no business falling in love fell so hard he spent the rest of his life trying to prove it was real.\n

\nThe first half is the love story. Raw, unfiltered, told from a male perspective that the romantic comedy genre pretends does not exist. The second half is Brooklyn in 1992, where Pete lands in a neighborhood where Spike Lee lives two blocks south, Biggie Smalls runs the corner eight blocks up Fulton Avenue, the landlord is dying of AIDS, and his new roommates are so unhinged their fight over storm windows ends up in Brooklyn Courthouse. Every day is wilder and more dangerous than the last.\n

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How a guy fell in love and spent his life trying to prove it \u00b7 Brooklyn in 1992 did not let anyone stay comfortable \u00b7 What one man will write down to save what matters most.<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Contemporary Fiction SERIOUS ROOMMATE PROBLEMS A novel by\u00a0Paul Arata About the Book Pete Dominico’s marriage is over. His wife Holly just walked out of their last counseling session screaming that he never loved her, and the counselor’s only advice is to let her go. So Pete does what any desperate man with nothing left would do. He stuffs everything he owns into two bags, gets on the first bus out, and ends up in Brooklyn, New York. But this is not where the story starts. It starts in a bar, where Pete meets Holly for the first time and tells her he is having some serious roommate problems. What follows is the story of how a guy who had no business falling in love fell so hard he spent the rest of his life trying to prove it was real. The first half is the love story. Raw, unfiltered, told from a male perspective that the romantic comedy genre pretends does not exist. The second half is Brooklyn in 1992, where Pete lands in a neighborhood where Spike Lee lives two blocks south, Biggie Smalls runs the corner eight blocks up Fulton Avenue, the landlord is dying of AIDS, and his new roommates are so unhinged their fight over storm windows ends up in Brooklyn Courthouse. Every day is wilder and more dangerous than the last. Serious Roommate Problems is fiction built on real life events. It is the first novel in a two part series, followed by Roommate Problems, where Pete and Holly move to Portland, Oregon, and Pete has to survive something almost as terrifying as Brooklyn. Holly’s family. Connection Chaos Truth How a guy fell in love and spent his life trying to prove it \u00b7 Brooklyn in 1992 did not let anyone stay comfortable \u00b7 What one man will write down to save what matters most.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-85","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebsitepublishing.xyz\/Paul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebsitepublishing.xyz\/Paul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebsitepublishing.xyz\/Paul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebsitepublishing.xyz\/Paul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebsitepublishing.xyz\/Paul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebsitepublishing.xyz\/Paul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebsitepublishing.xyz\/Paul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85\/revisions\/299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebsitepublishing.xyz\/Paul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}