Return to Shepherd Avenue by Charlie Carillo
Crowds gathered to watch the crazy man high up on Brooklyn Bridge. The police were called and people were terrified that he was going to jump. Luckily, Joey Ambrosio just wanted to scatter his father's ashes, but the police still worried that he was mad.
People on Shepherd Avenue also thought that sixty-year old Joey was nuts when he bought his childhood home for too big a price, left his door unlocked and took the bars off the windows in a poor and crime-ridden neighbourhood. However, after a troubled and peripatetic adolescence and an estrangement from his daughter, Joey feels the urge to return to the home where he lived with his uncle and grand-mother.
In this moving story, he finds old childhood friends, falls in love with a beautiful laundress and slowly starts to rebuild his life...
I enjoyed this very New York story by Charlie Carillo, but I wasn't sure about the author's attitude to age differences in romances.
I received this free ebook from Net Galley in return for an honest review.
People on Shepherd Avenue also thought that sixty-year old Joey was nuts when he bought his childhood home for too big a price, left his door unlocked and took the bars off the windows in a poor and crime-ridden neighbourhood. However, after a troubled and peripatetic adolescence and an estrangement from his daughter, Joey feels the urge to return to the home where he lived with his uncle and grand-mother.
In this moving story, he finds old childhood friends, falls in love with a beautiful laundress and slowly starts to rebuild his life...
I enjoyed this very New York story by Charlie Carillo, but I wasn't sure about the author's attitude to age differences in romances.
I received this free ebook from Net Galley in return for an honest review.
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