Luncheonette: A Memoir

When a rare condition suddenly rendered his father paraplegic on Christmas Eve 1980, twenty-three-year-old Steven Sorrentino stowed away his dreams of a Broadway career-not to mention his budding sexuality-left New York City, went back into the closet, and returned to his small hometown in New Jersey to take over Clint's Corner, his father's luncheonette. Steven found himself at the grill flipping porkroll and slowly flipping out, serving a counter full of eccentrics, and befriending the ri...