Growing Up Poor, Living Rich

Growing Up Poor, Living Rich is a poignant coming-of-age tale. During a steamy Depression-era summer, three boys growing up in a government housing project in Norwalk, Connecticut, forge powerful bonds of friendship. Together, they escape the often menacing streets of their neighborhood in the cool darkness of the local movie house and in the welcoming arms of girls willing to explore with them their burgeoning sexuality. Yet the driving passion of their lives is baseball, and they will go to great lengths to raise the money needed to make a pilgrimage to their shrine of worship-Yankee stadium. Though only a train ride away, for these young devotees of the game, it is a journey to the world of dreams. Written in evocative prose that captures the textures of a New England factory town of a bygone era, this moving testament of friendship resonates with humor and honesty.