02096cam a2200265 i 4500 1663740134 TxAuBib 20241021120000.0 240215s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2024006923 9781644214077 hardcover 1644214075 hardcover TxAuBib rda Burns, Edward, 1968-, author. A kid from Marlboro Road [HC] : a novel / Edward Burns. New York : Seven Stories Press, 2024. ©2024. pages cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "An Irish-American family comes to life in this first novel by actor and independent filmmaker Ed Burns. The book opens at a wake, as our twelve-year-old narrator, an aspiring writer, takes in the death of his beloved grandfather, Pop, a larger-than-life figure to him. The overflowing crowd includes sandhogs in their muddy work boots, old Irish biddies in black dresses and cops in uniform, along with the family in mourning. There's an open casket, the first time he's seen a dead person. Later, at the bar across the street, he tells a story to the assembled crowd about the day his dad proposed to his mom, and how he almost got beat up by her brothers for it, and then how Pop made him propose twice. His mom calls him "Kneenie," and with her husband and older son Tommy lost to her, he's the best thing she's got. He sees her struggling, but doesn't know how to help-since like his brother and father before him he knows he'll also abandon her soon enough. Stories cascade between the prior generation's colorful origins in the Bronx and the softer world of the Long Island town of Gibson, where the family lives now. There are scenes in the Rockaways, at Belmont Race Track, and in Montauk. Out of individual struggles a collective warmth emerges, a certain kind of American story, raucous and joyous"-- Provided by publisher. 20241021. Novels. lcgft