The Madcat

The Western Mass. Duology: Book 2

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Literary Fiction, Coming of Age, and Novels

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Profanity and Sex

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The Western Mass. Duology — Book 2

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Jul 21, 2026

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The Madcat

The Western Mass. Duology: Book 2

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Blurb

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in an amusement park.

At the end of a swampy 1975 summer, Vinny Potkevich runs away from an abusive dad and gets a job at a massive New England amusement park—only to fall under the spell of roller coaster legend and certified madman P.K. Hopper.

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Genres

Literary Fiction, Coming of Age, and Novels

Trigger Warnings

Profanity and Sex

Type of Ending

Series

The Western Mass. Duology — Book 2

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Publication Date

Jul 21, 2026

Page Length

276 pages

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Author

Jeff Polman was born in Hartford, CT in 1954, grew up in Longmeadow, MA and graduated from the BDIC program at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. He worked for the Advocate Newspapers and Boston Phoenix before becoming Arts Editor for the Vermont Vanguard Press in Burlington, VT for its first five years.

Having enjoyed his time as a student filmmaker, he moved to Los Angeles in 1982 to pursue screenwriting. He has written over 20 scripts and has had two low-budget thrillers produced, Grave Secrets (1989) and Benefit of the Doubt (1993), a Miramax release which starred Donald Sutherland and Amy Irving.

RED JACARANDAS, to be released in January of, 2022, is a unique trio of "weird tales" about Los Angeles, two original screenplays wrapped around a short novel. Having grown up in New England watching countless scary movies as a youth, his new project is a return to his supernatural thriller roots.