The Joy Wheel

THE JOY WHEEL

Eddie Kiley is a teenager growing up in Chicago with his Irish-bred family-his church-going mother and older sister. His father is a salesman, gone most of the time, and Eddie idolizes him. His mother's younger brother Frank used to be a successful accountant, but now he's an alcoholic, always taking the pledge but never keeping it. Her older brother Pat is a cop, flexible about the law, but helpful in getting Eddie his first real job.

Now Eddie is running print sheets for the ...