Cambridge Street

By: Mr. Steven Decker

Narrated by: Cory Hance

Paolo and Gianna and their two young children, forced to leave their home country, arrive in Chicago's Little Sicily on a freezing night at the dawning of the Roaring Twenties. They quickly learn that they are not welcome or wanted in their new home and that the streets are not paved with gold. The streets and businesses are, in fact, run by dirty politicians, mobsters, and crooked cops. Times are tough; the young immigrants must learn to be tougher to survive.

When an act of brutal and terrible violence is committed against the family by their own countrymen, Paolo swears revenge. The boss of Little Sicily, Don Malo Tancredi, cannot tolerate disrespect and orders the public murder of Paolo as an example to the neighborhood he controls. Paolo then becomes the target of vicious assassins.

The young farmer-turned-slaughterhouse-laborer and his wife, Gianna, stand alone against the killers who wait outside their door to kill him.

With Paolo's death imminent, his survival, and the futures of their children, hang in the balance as the couple prays for a miracle and works to outsmart the mobsters who wait outside their door to gun him down.

©2017, 2019 Steven A. Decker (P)2020 Steven A. Decker

A must read!!!

This book was outstanding. I listened to it twice on Audible.
Steven Decker is extremely talented in his thorough explanation of the life of immigrant family who arrived in America from Sicily. I felt like i was there. Loved it!

Too muddled

Story line jumps from one time span to another without any bridge I only hope I can return this not even half way thru🎞️

A new American emerges.

Craftsmanship story telling in the first degree. I found the character development to be very on point with the struggles that Italian Americans most likely faced at this time in our history. I found the violence to be a little descriptive and rough. However, it was necessary to show the differences of these very different types of people and how love was more powerful than the gun. I hope another generation of this family can live on in books and be told as this story journey only the beginning. The continuing stories of the American dream in which drew this family across the Atlantic Ocean. I believe this story honors the real families who faced these prejudices of Italian immigrants like them, were stories lost in time until now. Well done.

rather boring

Disjointed story line, characters unremarkable, had to struggle to finish and book left me disappointed.

The Italian Family’s Joys and tragedy’s in a touching story.

Listening to the Tomaso Family’s made both laugh and cry. The story painted beautiful images of the native land, and made me think of my husband’s family own journey to the US. The characters come to life and I found myself waiting in anticipation to learn what would happen next to each character. The book helps the audience learn what it means to be family.