Tell Them I'm Not Home

'Tell Them I’m Not Home' is a lightly fictionalized memoir of growing up in the Olney section of North Philadelphia in the decade following World War II a place not unlike Jean Shepherd’s Hammond Indiana of a decade earlier. The close-quarters life in a blue-collar neighborhood of row-house streets provided the author with a cast of characters many funny some scary as well as a near-endless litany of stories. 'Tell Them I’m Not Home' is a ticket back to the Olney & Philadelphia of the late 1940s and early 1950s a place as singular colorful and as lost to today as Hapsburg Vienna or tenement New York.