The Fire Escape Stories, Volume I, is comprised of nine episodes that make up Mike Burns's strongest childhood memories of living in Brooklyn, New York, in the 1950s.
Mike and his cousin, Salvatore -Sally-Boy- Boccanera are born one minute apart, in the same hospital, and it seems like they'll never be more than a minute apart the rest of their lives.
Their experiences knocking around the city are challenging, funny, touching, and at times disturbing-all of the ingredients that define growing up.
Life lessons happen in the Italian bakery Sally-Boy's father...
The Fire Escape Stories, Volume I, is comprised of nine episodes that make up Mike Burns's strongest childhood memories of living in Brookl...
Where does a fire escape lead? Can it really save lives? Is it, in fact, a way out of danger? These questions are at the heart of the 17 episodes in The Fire Escape Stories, Volume II, a coming-of-age collection set in the early 1960s that builds upon the nine tales in The Fire Escape Stories, Volume I, which are set in the 1950s. In Volume I, cousins Sally-Boy Boccanera and Mike Burns, are born one-minute apart on the same day in the same Brooklyn Hospital in 1948. The fire escape is the safe shared space where the two youths talk, play, and try to understand the world that is emerging. In...
Where does a fire escape lead? Can it really save lives? Is it, in fact, a way out of danger? These questions are at the heart of the 17 episodes in T...
