Brick City

<p>Brick City is a novel that tells the hopes and dreams of Ginger a forty-three-year-old single mother of three teenaged children: nineteen-year-old son Ralph; sixteen-year-old daughter Susan; and fourteen-year-old daughter Helen. In spite of Ginger's dubious past she was able to eke out a fair living for her children. Things were going well in her household until Nick a one-time gangster was released from prison and arrived to collect an old debt from a longtime friend. His method of collecting left Ginger's hopes and dreams shattered and the little community of Brick City devastated.</p>