The title is intriguing. A quick read, however, reveals that while Baltimore’s Fell’s Point is definitely urban, working two jobs, traveling to Bosnia and taking a cross-country trip with friends to Montana, hardly qualifies as a hermit. Instead, it is good marketing. Sam Macdonald, a first-book author with a blurb from his MFA program director on the back cover and a tuna can on the front, delivers a conflicted narrative told with self-deprecating humor. more ›