The Angry Orphan

Slums of Lower East Side, New York City, 1900. A boy, maybe three or four years old, wearing ragged clothes, is abandoned in a church by his distressed mother. He flees from a priest and is trapped in a mob storming a Jewish funeral procession. He's knocked into a filthy gutter, hitting his head on the curb. A rat jumps on his chest.

The Angry Orphan is a coming-of-age story that follows Luther Dominic Wolff from coast to coast, from a filthy lower East Side gutter to the clear blue waters o...