bronx (new york, n.y.)

"When the owner of the New York Yankees invites Joey, Kevin, and Omar to New York to watch a game in the owner's suite, the geeks start finding ways to help the Yankees win. But when people start finding out what's going on, the geeks find themselves running for their lives through the Bronx"--Provided by publisher.

The author chronicles the life of his father, a Russian Jew who came to New York at the turn of the century searching for a better life and instead finding frustration and tragedy; and examines their difficult relationship.

Recalls a certain New York City boyhood in the 1930s through the eyes of the child himself and then him as an adult trying to reconstruct the past.

Angela returns home from school only to find that her mother has left, and as she grows into adulthood, she continues to struggle to understand her mother's motivation for leaving.

Discusses life in the streets in the Bronx during the late eighties and early nineties as the author recounts his time searching for an identity and escape from poverty while surrounded by drugs and violent crime before finally moving to Virginia.

Jasmine Reyes, a former hooker turned Bronx bond agent, takes a chance on Macho Booker, a talented graffiti artist who reminds her of her twin brother who committed suicide in prison, so she is disappointed when Macho fails to turn up for his court date, and embarks on a dangerous mission to find him.

A young girl enjoys a day, eating a fat, juicy burger, dancing to the music of the jukebox, and mopping the floor at her father's luncheonette.

During an 1888 blizzard in the Bronx, New York, twelve-year-old Milton Daub makes a pair of snowshoes and braves the weather to take food and medicine to his neighbors.

Sixteen-year-old Tyrell, accustomed to being the man of the family, has mixed feelings when his father comes home from jail, but he knows he cannot just go back to being a little boy, especially after losing his younger brother to foster care, getting involved with drug dealers, learning about his mother's infidelity, and developing a relationship with Jasmine.