Alterations To A Life Jacket: Tales Of A Young Man's Survival

Frank Marotta was born and raised on the mean streets of New York City in the 1950s. Corona Queens was a close-knit blue-collar predominantly Italian neighborhood. It had the distinction of being the site of the two Worlds Fairs in 1939 and 1964. Now known as Flushing Meadows Corona Park its home to the New York Mets Citi Field the Arthur Ash Tennis Stadium Queens Theatre in the Park and the New York City Hall of Science. But such upscale beginnings were not the way it all started for Frank. His family of eight lived in a close-quartered four-room apartment and experienced both abuse and dysfunction. All this lead to Franks instabilities-mental emotional and social-and to his self-purported inability to make favorable decisions in his life. But it is now time to unlock those early years of hopelessness and despair. This is his story.