Bloodbrothers: A Novel

Eighteen-year-old Stony De Coco has to make a choice: either join his father in the tightly knit world of New Yorks construction unions or take off and find his own path. But Stonys family is not about to make that choice easy. As he tries to protect his little brother Albert from their dangerously unbalanced mother and to postpone the difficult adult responsibilities that await him he finds hope in a job working with children at a hospital--a job that promises not to make anyone happy but Stony.. Richard Prices Bloodbrothers is a soulful and often profane story of working-class life in the Bronx and one young mans bruising initiation into adulthood.