A Kid From Marlboro RoadAuthor :
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Published : Thursday 12 September 2024
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A Kid from Marlboro Road opens at a wake, as our twelve-year-old narrator, an aspiring writer, takes in the death of his beloved grandfather, Pop, a larger-than-life figure to him. The overflowing crowd includes sandhogs in their muddy work boots, old Irish biddies in black dresses and cops in uniform, along with the family in mourning. Theres an open casket, the first time hes seen a dead person. Later, at the bar across the street, he tells a story to the assembled crowd about the day his dad proposed to his mom, and how he almost got beat up by her brothers for it, and then how Pop made him propose twice. His mom calls him Kneenie, and with her husband and older son Tommy lost to her, hes the best thing shes got. He sees her struggling with depression and is worried his parents might get divorced, but doesnt know how to help - since like his brother and father before him he knows hell also abandon her soon enough. Stories cascade between the prior generations colorful origins in the Bronx and the softer world of the of Gibson, the town on Long Island where the family lives now. There are scenes in the Rockaways, at Belmont Race Track, and in Montauk. Out of individual struggles a collective warmth emerges, a certain kind of American story, raucous and joyous.
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