Atta Boy - Fiedorek, Cally
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"In December 2018, we meet Rudy Coyle, a bar owner's son from Flushing, Queens, in the throes of a major quarter-life (if he's lucky) crisis. Cut off from the family business, he gets a Hail Mary job as a night doorman in a storied Park Avenue apartment building, where he comes under the wing of the family in 4E, the Cohens. Jacob, their fast-talking patriarch, is one of a generation of moneylenders who made hundreds of millions of dollars in the cutthroat taxi medallion industry in the early 2000s, largely by preying on the hopes and dreams of impoverished immigrant drivers. As Jake tries to…mehr

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"In December 2018, we meet Rudy Coyle, a bar owner's son from Flushing, Queens, in the throes of a major quarter-life (if he's lucky) crisis. Cut off from the family business, he gets a Hail Mary job as a night doorman in a storied Park Avenue apartment building, where he comes under the wing of the family in 4E, the Cohens. Jacob, their fast-talking patriarch, is one of a generation of moneylenders who made hundreds of millions of dollars in the cutthroat taxi medallion industry in the early 2000s, largely by preying on the hopes and dreams of impoverished immigrant drivers. As Jake tries to stop the bleed from the debt crisis now plaguing his company, clawing back his assets from an increasingly dangerous coterie of Russian-American associates, Rudy goes from errand boy to bodyguard to something like Jake's right-hand man, drawn closer into the world of his neglected son J.J., his glamorous, unhappy wife Nora, and his sheltered but perceptive adolescent daughter Marley"--
Autorenporträt
Cally Fiedorek is the winner of a Pushcart Prize and an Emerging Writer Fellowship from the Center for Fiction. She lives in New York City.