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Overview: In a small but colorful apartment in a housing projects under the shadow of the Queensborough Bridge, a six-year-old boy and his streetwise, fourteen-year-old sister experience the joys, humor, and tribulations of peasant life. Herman, a charismatic father plagued by the typical bad habits—booze, gambling, and other women—is tempered by a nurturing Italian mother (Mama), who becomes the only solace to a life of poverty and chaos. Food, music, and humor hold the family together. In fact, food becomes the hero of the story—posing the question: Where does this need to feed and comfort come from? Does this craving to please others come from having been nurtured as a child? Or does it come from having faced some physical pain or some childhood abuse in its many manifestations?A young boy, Little Joey, faces the abuse of his father's neglect and physical attacks, which are softened by a mother's soothing Italian-heritage cooking. Joey is able to weather the storm despite his own accidents and the debilitating experience of a neighborhood bookie taking over the family apartment when the father flees to California to find a better life for the family.Once the mother, daughter, and the son escape the clutches of the bookie and arrive in California and a new life, we discover that Herman's bad habits have come along on the journey. When Mama witnesses Herman abusing Little Joey to make him stop crying, she finally decides, once and for all, to kick him out of the house for good.

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Pages 237
Language Eng
Publisher Early Lyrics Publishing
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ISBN 243520903
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Joe Ortiz is a writer and avid reader based in the Pacific Northwest. Before pursuing writing full-time, they spent over a decade working in education. When not working on their next book, Joe Ortiz can usually be found hiking with their dog or trying out new coffee shops in their neighborhood.

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