Be transported to a time when family meant everything, no matter the consequences, in this mesmerizing collection of short stories told with a touch of humor and bravado. Charles begins life with his Sicilian grandmother in a four-floor, walk-up tenement building, a life now long gone from the streets of Manhattan's Eastside. There's love, hate, revenge, and tales of attempted murder involving Charles, his family's beloved Catholic priests and his Irish dockworker buddies from Hell's Kitchen. Says Hunter, "I've waited over 50 years to share these stories, revealing them only now since everyone involved is either dead or senile. Consider this my fictionalized memoir."