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In Charlie Carillo's funny, insightful novel, a divorced man reaches know his seventeen-year-old child in a tale that rewrites the booklet on quality time along.... Sammy Sullivan is working his way down the ladder of success. Divorced and moving fifty, his romantic relationships have the longevity of a fruit fly. But just how many men can get themselves fired and have their only child expelled from prep institution all in one day? Now, after almost eighteen years, he and Jake may finally become familiar with each other. (That's if his ex-wife - the super-achiever Sammy can only imagine being - doesn't find out.) Jake is aware of virtually nothing at all about his origins. So, Sammy shows him the old community in the much gets to of Queens. But it has been thirty years. The elderly woman Sammy lost his virginity to now runs on the walker to bypass. Most of his hangouts are long gone. It's dreary, born-to-lose stuff. But Jake is on a mission. Smart beyond his (and his dad's) years, he doesn't want his daddy to miss out the second time around on the nice things he blew the very first time. And they have got a whole weekend along - a quest where Sammy will confront his, dysfunctional youth and Jake will face a recent he never recognized he had. This isn't your typical father-son history - one is still growing up. The other is his child. Queens-born Charlie Carillo, like his protagonist Sam Sullivan, functioned at the New York Post as a journalist for quite some time. He's also the writer of My Ride with Gus and divides his time taken between New York City and London, England, where he works as an unbiased television producer.
