book

In Chicago’s Roaring 20s, where mobsters and crooked cops run the streets, an immigrant family relies on each other and their faith in God to survive. And then they came to kill him.

Historical Fiction,Drama,Crime

1917. On a small family farm in Sicily, the elder Tomaso tells his family that taxes and poverty have made it impossible for the family to stay together; that his three sons must go to America to start new lives.

Chptrs 1 through 17 take place in Italy and Chicago; Chptrs 19 through 43 take place in the Chicago tenement slums of the 1920s.

Yes

Overcoming Monster/Villain

Other

Extreme Violence

Name: Giana Tomaso

Age: twenty five ish in the beginning, eighties at the end

Gender: Female

Role: Protagonist

Key Traits: Decisive,Engaging,Faithful,Gracious,Heroic,Religious,Selfless,Romantic,Honorable,Leader,Strong Moral Code

Name: Paolo Tomaso

Age: 30/80

Gender: Male

Role: Protagonist

Key Traits: Aspiring,Badass,Desperate,Faithful,Heroic,Romantic,Selfless,Religious,Honorable,Strong Moral Code

Name: Don Malo Tancredi

Age: 40ish

Gender: Male

Role: antagonist

Key Traits: Charming,Confident,Leader,Badass,Aggressive,Criminal,Greedy,Power Hungry,Villainous,Unapologetic,Narcisstic

Name: Don Malo Tancredi

Age: 40's

Gender: Male

Role: antagonist

Key Traits: Badass,Aggressive,Criminal,Villainous,Narcisstic,Uneducated,Power Hungry,Greedy,Unapologetic

About the Author Steven Decker grew up in a large, thriving Sicilian family on the north side of Chicago. He never forgot the family stories about the struggles of his immigrant grandparents: how they survived terrible poverty, life during Prohibition and their encounters with gangsters. He has woven many of those true events into an exciting fictional tale spanning a half century. “Cambridge Street is for the millions of immigrants from Italy and the world that came to America to give their families better lives,” said Decker. “They helped build our country, feed its people and fight its wars. Now, with the passing of years, their bravery and sacrifices are being forgotten. We must not let that happen.”

Age: 18-34,35-54,55+

Target Gender: Universal

Information not completed

Status: Yes: self-published

Publisher: Steven Decker

Year Published: 2018

No

978-0692978474