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Something About Me and My Book:: I'm a Brooklyn born Italian-American writer/performer/ traveller, and my memoir - THE EDGE OF WHITENESS - is both available in paperback on Amazon and also Amazon Kindle. A cross between a funny A Bronx Tale, a bizarre The Razors Edge, and the 70's movie, Coolie High, a sort of a quirky coming of age story, it is also a humorous and edgy social commentary on one community's reaction to the inexorable march of change which defined a unique time period - the funky early 1970's.
1969 Brooklyn smolders in the volatile aftermath of the recent race riots. The family of young Joey Montaperto flees their beloved Italian neighborhood for a New Jersey suburb so painfully white that it makes the TV show "My Three Sons seem exotic. Ironically, when the high school there is then later forcefully integrated, the sensitive Joey is confronted with an even more brutal racial conflict. Unexpectedly rescued from a hallway ambush by a murderous yet artsitic loner, though, he is subsequently introduced to a fascinating new world of black culture. Finding his soul and "soul" in the writings of Malcolm X, a doomed first love with a sizzling but heroin plagued Puerto Rican hairdresser, and ultimatley, a spiritual journey into the study of Islam. This all causes a major conflict within his Catholic family, and the Mafia restaurant where he is employed as a dishwasher.
An actor and comedian for many years, I also draw from my one -man show performed in several New York theaters from 1997 to 2000.

Website:: http://www.joemontaperto.com

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