Saint of the Narrows Street - Boyle, William
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"Gravesend, Brooklyn, 1986. Risa Franzone lives in a ground-floor apartment on Saint of the Narrows Street with her bad-seed husband Saverio and their eight-month-old baby Fabrizio. Risa is a loving mother, a faithful wife, a saintly neighbor, as she has learned to be--but lately, her husband's slow dive into criminality and abuse has threatened her peace, raising concerns about her and her baby's safety. On the night her younger sister Giulia moves in with Risa to recover from a bad break-up, a fateful accident occurs: Risa, boiled over with anger and fear, strikes a drunk, erratic Sav with a…mehr

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"Gravesend, Brooklyn, 1986. Risa Franzone lives in a ground-floor apartment on Saint of the Narrows Street with her bad-seed husband Saverio and their eight-month-old baby Fabrizio. Risa is a loving mother, a faithful wife, a saintly neighbor, as she has learned to be--but lately, her husband's slow dive into criminality and abuse has threatened her peace, raising concerns about her and her baby's safety. On the night her younger sister Giulia moves in with Risa to recover from a bad break-up, a fateful accident occurs: Risa, boiled over with anger and fear, strikes a drunk, erratic Sav with a cast-iron pan, killing him on the spot. The sisters are left with a choice: notify the authorities and make a case for self-defense, or bury the man's body and go on with their lives as best they can"--
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William Boyle is the author of eight books set in the southern Brooklyn neighborhood where he was born and raised, including his debut, Gravesend; the story collection Death Don't Have No Mercy; The Lonely Witness, nominated for the Hammett Prize; A Friend Is a Gift You Give Yourself, an Amazon Best Book of 2019; City of Margins, a Washington Post Best Thriller and Mystery Book of 2020; and Shoot the Moonlight Out, listed by CrimeReads as one of the ten best noir novels of 2021. He currently lives in Oxford, Mississippi.