Depression's Child

This book is about a young poor boy growing up during the Great Depression when organized crime was rampant welfare didn't exist food lines were commonplace and hot tamales were available from a vendor on a modified bicycle if you had the price. His mom a widow since he was four years old didn't have the price. Once a week they had meat; it was sausage and what tasted like sawdust mixed in. He didn't like it but he ate it because he was hungry. Sometimes on Sundays White Castle had hamburgers on sale ten for a dollar. When his mom and his older half sister had a dollar they ate like royalty. He could've eaten all ten by himself. When he was fifteen he lied about his age and joined the US Navy and was never hungry again.