Gemini Joe, Memoirs of Brooklyn

by Janet Sierzant

The runt of the litter, Gemini Joe is no stranger to tears. His life is a story: following the Great Depression and his parents struggle to provide for his family. Survival in his powerful, sometimes cruel family was not easy. Although he remembers with affection and occasional humor the holidays, his childhood friends, his mother and grandmother, his tough, bullying brothers and indifferent sister, his family was too much for him. He found acceptance in a bottle of scotch. Health issues...