"Family Respect": "Blacky needs to see you!"

by L.J. DeGeppo

Overview

"FAMILY RESPECT" This story of a boy growing up in a tough neighborhood of Brooklyn in the late 1940's, is a detailed account of his unhinged rite of passage, from Altar Boy to Unholy Man. Thomas "Tommy" Dialanti is a good kid born into a fine hard working Italian family. Losing his Father at an early age, his Mother with her parents, offer him a good life, while bringing him up with a solid moral foundation of "Family Respect."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798890754899
Publisher:	Excel Book Writing
Publication date:	01/15/2024
Pages:	650
Sales rank:	588,396
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 1.38(d)

About the Author

L.J. DeGeppo, Born Brooklyn New York, 1943. His father died when he was three years old from complications of World War 11. Through his adolescent and teenage years, he was raised by his Mother and her parents. His Mother was born in the United States but her parents had emigrated from Italy in the early 1900's. They were a self made family, eventually owning a highly respected grocery, butcher store, as well as a six family apartment house. In all those formative years, the Author wanted for nothing. In school, he went from, Honor Roll to Optimate Society, then to understanding that Calculus and Latin would not be part of his later life, so he graduated and went into construction. He built luxury homes, for some he thought didn't deserve them. But it was always Brooklyn that had a grip and drew him back. It was in the mid 1970's to mid 1980's when the meaning of Brooklyn New York, and what it held for him, becomes memorialized and dramatized in this book. For many years he wanted to be his main character. He watched from the sidelines as his main character, Tommy and those that impacted Tommy’s life, went on the craziest, inevitable death ride that Coney Island could ever conceive. In the Front Matter of the book it offers among other, the Author's complete evaluation of the book and more importantly of himself... in what is termed as The Brain Dump. This book is 50% truth, 50% fiction and 100% for the reader to determine which is which!

L.J. DeGeppo