Author's Note

In brief: Joel Levy is born in the Bronx in 1917 to Samuel Elijah, a labor organizer, and his wife Rachel. We follow Joel through his early years, his struggles with police, bumming cross-country during the Great Depression, hard times and dangerous ones in the South, fighting for the Loyalists in Spain, interrogation by the FBI, encounters with company goons and Red squads. A story about those times, without which we can't fully comprehend these times.
I'm posting this novel serially, chapter by chapter, taking a cue from Charles Dickens. New chapters will appear here on a roughly quarterly schedule.

-- Earl Coleman