Frank and Me: A Novel of Generations

After losing his grandfather, the last male role model in his life, 12-year-old Mike finds himself the the lone male in a house full of women — an absent mother, a financially-strapped grandmother, and a doting great-grandmother. Without his hero around to guide him, Mike struggles to find his place in this first generation Italian-American family.

That is, until he runs into his grandfather's former business partner and Connecticut's most prominent crime lord, Frank Lomanico. Mike is immed...