Kelleher's expressive narrative echoes with the edginess of a life sharpened on the street as he depicts his parents' humble second generation Irish-Italian beginnings in the urban-industrial Philadelphia of the 40s and 50s. The lure of the streets, the hardships of life, and his father's debilitating alcoholism threaten to take his family's dreams from them. Yet the strength of family, indomitable love, and interminable hope help them to overcome adversity.
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Kelleher's expressive narrative echoes with the edginess of a life sharpened on the street as he depicts his parents' humble second generation Irish-Italian beginnings in the urban-industrial Philadelphia of the 40s and 50s. The lure of the streets, the hardships of life, and his father's debilitating alcoholism threaten to take his family's dreams from them. Yet the strength of family, indomitable love, and interminable hope help them to overcome adversity.
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