A Brooklyn Rose, a true story about Italian immigrants and gangsters has arrived. A powerful memoir by Suzanna Lonchar

Imagine growing up among gangsters or living next door to the famous Bonnano crime family. Imagine being held hostage by a gangster during a shoot-out, or hiding Al Capones guns in your shoeshine box!

This true story lets you enter a world where extraordinary circumstances such as these became merely everyday events. A Brooklyn Rose reveals the shocking and compelling details of what life was like for a Italian immigrant family in Brooklyn N.Y. during the era of prohibition, gangsters, and later, the Great Depression.

In Nineteen Hundred and Six the Finazzo Family migrated from Sicily to Brooklyn, New York in search of the , "American Dream," only to encounter, poverty, sickness, tragidies, prison, death and even murder. Their dream had turned into a nightmare but only through each other's strength were they able to survive and eventually find their dream.
    
Rosie, one of the ten children, struggles to survive on the streets of Brooklyn, and by the age of ten she is already toughened by poverty, violence, crime and untimely deaths all around her - even murder. Rosie endures hunger and lives with the screams of her mother's pain as she suffers with cancer. Despite all this, she finds a way to protect herself against poverty and the evils of her world.

"I was inspired to write this book because it was my mother Roses dying wish," says Suzanna Lonchar, author of A Brooklyn Rose. Suzanna is a second generation Italian-American with a proud and dramatic family history which she retells in this exciting memoir, A Brooklyn Rose.