In the tradition of Roddy Doyle's "The Woman Who Walked Into Doors "comes a brilliant feat of literary ventriloquism, a debut novel by a male author introducing a one-of-a-kind female narrator."
"
Meet Mary Nolan (nee Marelli), a tough-talking Jersey City native who comes of age during the turbulent 1970s. Adored by the small-time mafia types in her extended Italian American family-formidable but doting figures like her grandpa Louie, Tony the Horse, and Charlie Cuppacoffee-Mary grew up believing she could always count on men to protect her. But after marrying young to escape her...