Trust Fund Kids - Tony Thomson

Gracious North Fork, Connecticut - a sleepy WASP backwater - is jolted awake when a mega-rich outsider plans to build a world-class golf resort on a pristine piece of rural real estate.The local trust fund kids vow to protect their cud-chewing way of life, banding together to resist the intruder in their own genteel way.Brute force intervenes in the form of Byron Weinberg, the town's gay Jewish mayor. Because of his unconventional political agenda, Weinberg allows no development in his town. Ever....Neither gracious nor genteel, Weinberg uses creative methods to stop the golf course - from dastardly tricks to legal shenanigans - and murder. Weinberg is gay but gay like Alexander the Great or Lawrence of Arabia - not your mother's hairdresser. In this black comedy, sex, love, Labradors, galloping obesity and weird town customs complicate the struggle against the golf course. Throw in a nutty radio station and the plot thickens. But all comes right in the end - sort of....