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Sugar Pop Moon: A Jersey Leo Novel
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Florio, John
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Jersey Leo novels volume 1.
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Prometheus Books 2013
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Jersey Leo is the quintessential outsider—an albino of mixed race. Known as "Snowball" on the street, he makes a living as the bartender at a mob-run speakeasy in Prohibition-era Hell's Kitchen. Being neither black nor white, he has no group to call his own. His own mother abandoned him as a baby. And his father-a former boxing champ with his own secrets-disapproves of Jersey's work at a dive owned by one of New York's most notorious gangsters.
So when he inadvertently purchases counterfeit moonshine ("sugar pop moon") with his boss's money-a potentially fatal mistake-he must go undercover to track down the bootlegger who took him in. The clues lead to Philadelphia, where he runs into a cleaver-swinging madman out for his femurs and a cold-blooded gangster holed up on a Christmas-tree farm. Now with a price on his head in two cities, Jersey seeks help from the only man he can trust, his father. As the two delve into the origins of the mysterious sugar pop moon, stunning secrets about Jersey's past come to light. To ensure his future, Jersey must face his past, even if it means that life will never return to normal.
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Jersey Leo is the quintessential outsider—an albino of mixed race. Known as "Snowball" on the street, he makes a living as the bartender at a mob-run speakeasy in Prohibition-era Hell's Kitchen. Being neither black nor white, he has no group to call his own. His own mother abandoned him as a baby. And his father-a former boxing champ with his own secrets-disapproves of Jersey's work at a dive owned by one of New York's most notorious gangsters.
So when he inadvertently purchases counterfeit moonshine ("sugar pop moon") with his boss's money-a potentially fatal mistake-he must go undercover to track down the bootlegger who took him in. The clues lead to Philadelphia, where he runs into a cleaver-swinging madman out for his femurs and a cold-blooded gangster holed up on a Christmas-tree farm. Now with a price on his head in two cities, Jersey seeks help from the only man he can trust, his father. As the two delve into the origins of the mysterious sugar pop moon, stunning secrets about Jersey's past come to light. To ensure his future, Jersey must face his past, even if it means that life will never return to normal.
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      • content: "Don't miss this absolutely riveting, gritty debut coming-of-age tale. Absorbing and briskly paced, the story toggles deftly between 1906 and 1930. Despite abundant gunfire and bloodshed, the novel manages to successfully incorporate an idealistic tone. For readers who follow Kelli Stanley's "Miranda Corbie" series or Reed Farrel Coleman's "Moe Prager" books."
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        Set mainly in 1930 New York City, Florio’s lively if disjointed debut introduces Jersey Leo, a mixed-race albino who works as a bartender in a Hell’s Kitchen speakeasy called the Pour House. The pay is considerable, but so are Leo’s problems: he’s been conned into spending $4,800 of his boss’s money on worthless moonshine rather than the prime “sugar pop moon” that was expected. Now Leo must get the money back from a Philadelphia scam artist before his volatile boss finds out. Leo’s aggressive actions infuriate the Philadelphia mob and the corrupt police, while he becomes a target of a notorious voodoo sect with its own horrendous agenda. Haphazard flashbacks to 1906 covering the bitter story of Leo’s father, a black prizefighter who had a brief and unhappy liaison with Leo’s mother, could have been better coordinated. Still, the brisk story and its unusual hero pack a considerable punch. Agent: Elizabeth Evans, Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency.

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        Albino Jersey Leo, much to his retired-boxer father Ernie's distaste, earns a living tending bar at a speakeasy owned by mobster Jimmy McCullough in New York City in 1930. When Jersey mistakenly buys a large shipment of bad booze (using Jimmy's cash) from a Philadelphia-based distributor, he has to rectify the situation if he doesn't want Jimmy to kill him. But it seems that a religious sect in Philadelphia has a hit out on Jersey. Apparently, the bones of albinos are considered rare commodities. Jersey, already paranoid about being a biracial albino (street name "Snowball") and desperate to dig his way out of this bizarre mess, enlists the help of his dad. Meanwhile, an alternating story set in 1906 clues readers in to the whole Leo family backstory. VERDICT Don't miss this absolutely riveting, gritty debut coming-of-age tale. Absorbing and briskly paced, the story toggles deftly between 1906 and 1930. Despite abundant gunfire and bloodshed, the novel manages to successfully incorporate an idealistic tone. For readers who follow Kelli Stanley's "Miranda Corbie" series or Reed Farrel Coleman's "Moe Prager" books.

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