Bronx boy

"Jerome Charyn's three-part memoir of his boyhood in the Bronx has all the imagery and color of an enchanting and entertaining novel. It's been said that it captures the author's world so accurately that it can't possibly be true. Bronx Boy, like The Dark Lady from Belorusse and The Black Swan, both selected by The New York Times as Notable Books of the Year, is mixture of memory and imagination.". "Still known as "Baby", although a younger brother has come along, young Charyn makes pocket money delivering eggs, belongs to a group of twelve-year-old wannabe gangsters who meet in a soda shop…