Small and nimble, Griffin is charged with stealing exuberantly expressive nineteenth-century architectural sculptures gargoyles right off the faces of unsung tenements and iconic skyscrapers all over town. With both his family and his city fracturing, thirteen-year-old Griffin Watts is recruited into his estranged father's illicit and dangerous architectural salvage business. Intimately portraying New York's elbow-jostling relationship with time, the novel solves the mystery of a brazen and seemingly impossible architectural heist: the theft of an entire historic Manhattan building that stunned the city and made the front page of The New York Times in 1974. Hilarious and poignant, The Gargoyle Hunters is a love letter to a vanishing city, and a deeply emotional story of fathers and sons.
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