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A Friend Is a Gift You Give Yourself
William Boyle
Pegasus Books
March 2019
On Sale: March 5, 2019
344 pages
ISBN: 1643130587
EAN: 9781643130583
Kindle: B07GRHZ1RX
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Goodfellas meets Thelma and Louise
when an unlikely trio of women in New York find themselves
banding together to escape the clutches of violent figures
from their pasts. After Brooklyn mob widow Rena Ruggiero hits her
eighty-year-old neighbor Enzio in the head with an ashtray
when he makes an unwanted move on her, she embarks on a
bizarre adventure. Taking off in Enzio’s ’62 Impala, she
retreats to the Bronx home of her estranged daughter,
Adrienne, and her granddaughter, Lucia, only to be turned
away by Adrienne at the door. Their neighbor, Lacey “Wolfie”
Wolfstein, a one-time Golden Age porn star and retired
Florida Suncoast grifter, takes Rena in and befriends her. When Lucia discovers that Adrienne is planning to hit the
road with her ex-boyfriend Richie, she figures Rena’s her
only way out of a life on the run with a mother she can’t
stand. But Richie has massacred a few members of the
Brancaccio crime family for a big payday, and he drags even
more trouble into the mix in the form of an unhinged
enforcer named Crea. The stage is set for an explosion that
will propel Rena, Wolfie, and Lucia down a strange path,
each woman running from something and unsure what comes next. A Friend Is a Gift You Give Yourself is a screwball
noir about finding friendship and family where you least
expect it, in which William Boyle again draws readers into
the familiar—and sometimes frightening—world in the shadows
at the edges of New York’s neighborhoods.
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