Belford Stories Books in Order

In October 1987, a New Jersey fishing village prepares for a high-school football game and an approaching snowstorm. Interwoven lives reveal teenagers, police, musicians, and families navigating loneliness, ambition, and trouble over a consequential evening.

An approaching snowstorm brings another Friday-night choice to Belford's residents in October 1992. Revisiting the village five years after the first collection, these contemporary stories follow familiar characters deciding whether to stay home or seek trouble.

Belford's residents reunite in October 1997, ten years after the first collection's events. Another Friday night reveals how familiar people have changed, examining the consequences of good and bad decisions in the New Jersey fishing village.

In October 2002, Belford's residents spend another weekend in their small New Jersey fishing village. Five years after the previous installment, they face the question of whether they can leave earlier events behind and move forward with their lives.