A Brooklyn Saga - by Carolyn Angiolillo & Ronald Joseph Kule (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>As Angie Carpello sits on her Conselyea Street stoop in Williamsburg Brooklyn in the 1950s-70s, elements of Mob mentality, Catholic Church vagaries, and Old World Italian culture mold her into a young woman saddled with more questions than answers until she meets Chinese farm boy with a tragic past Wengchan Liang, a runner/hitman for the Mafia.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Author Carolyn Angiolillo grew up on the friendly, albeit at times mean streets of the Italian section of Brooklyn known as Williamsburg. The atmosphere there in the 1950s-60s-70s steeped in the aroma of home-cooked meals, fresh foods from neighborhood shops which included garlic for the palate, and listening to Caruso and other opera singers for the hearts and minds of the locals. <em>A Brooklyn Saga: Stories from the Stoop</em> traces the steps of Angie Carpello as she sits on her stoop and navigates her life amongst the Italian Mafia, the dichotomies of the Roman Catholic Church, and Old World Italian culture. Little does Angie know, that as she grows up playing stickball and games like Ringolevio and Johnny-on- the-Pony with neighborhood friends, that her life will dramatically change when she meets Wengchan Liang, a hitman from mainland China. </p><p><br></p><p>Angiolillo and her co-author, biographer/novelist Ronald Joseph Kule, create not only a deliciously accurate portrayal of the diversities of the Williamsburg Brooklyn of her early years but also with their wild imagination and devilish and cleverly intermingled characters, a tale of international intrigue and redemption that appeals to Brooklynites, big-city dwellers, and history buffs. Italian-Americans and their elders from the Old Country lend to this read may be as much as the rich heritage they inherited. </p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"To read 'A Brooklyn Saga' is to travel back in time to the real Brooklyn. New Yorkers, you don't know Williamsburg until you've read Angiolillo's and Kule's work! The characters are colorful and nuanced, and details about the neighborhood and the locals who reside in it are so visceral that you can practically taste Caterina's gravy and feel the front steps of her family's stoop under your feet. Angie adds innocence and complexity to the story and provides a compelling and somewhat classic coming-of-age tale set against the gritty city. A joy to read!" -Alison Caporimo, former deputy editor of <em>Seventeen</em> magazine</p><p><br></p><p>"<em>A Brooklyn Saga...</em> is a wonderful and personal representation of how the mixture of characters from many lands came together on the stoops of Brooklyn sidewalks... a revelation of the intricate weavings of our special culture: gritty and fascinating, loving and wonderful. I was profoundly touched by this easy-to-read exposé." - Dr. James Goldberg, Nominee for the Nobel Prize in Medicine, Santa Fe, New Mexico</p><p><br></p><p>"<em>A Brooklyn Saga...</em> engages like only an evening of gossip with the family can. The characters are... more than enough to give a sense of what life was like during the last century in this little section of the universe called Williamsburg Brooklyn. You'll be richer for meeting these people." - Darrell Edrich, Client Builders Business Consulting, Clearwater, Florida</p><p><br></p><p>"... Angiolillo's and Kule's superb and clear writing made <em>A Brooklyn Saga Stories from the Stoop</em> easy to navigate through all the different names and relationships and geography of Brooklyn, a place I've never visited. I felt like I came to know the characters, all of them. All in all, this is a wonderful story, wonderfully constructed and wonderfully written. So, so enjoyable! Man, oh man!" - Dwight Noteslinger Mikkelsen, Texas (a.k.a. Foster Kinn, author of <em>Freedom's Rush, Tales from The Biker and The Beast</em>)</p><p><br></p><br>
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