| 'Satchel of Dreams' will bring you back to the 1950s and 60s through a kaleidoscope of American tales centered around a delightfully out-of-kilter Staten Island family. In the days Before the Bridge - the Verrazzano Narrows Bridge, connecting it to Brooklyn - Staten Island was a remote greenbelt in the middle of New York harbor that, happily, time forgot. 'The Children's Ward' ushers you into a Catholic hospital on the island and the short-lived friendships that defined mortality for a seven-year-old boy. 'Lake Hopatcong,' introduces you to a hospitalized hero of WWII and his brunette nurse, with whom he fell in love and married while on crutches. 'The Route' brings you to a candy distributor in the South Bronx and the unplanned pathways in life, interrupted by the circumstances of the day. These and other stories, through the lens of an adult child, will transport you to a simpler time before technology, when summers seemed to last forever, and riding a bicycle around your neighborhood was all one needed to be happy. 'Satchel of Dreams' tells stories of minor triumphs, thunderous failures, and growing up with hope, disillusion, laughter, and tears, all in the name of humanity. |
