A Safe Place

It's time you knew the truth;' she said. 'About your father''What about him?''His first wife,' she said. 'She didn't die of cancer.''How did she die?''He murdered her.'Before there was Sleepers, Lorenzo Carcaterra survived a very different kind of nightmare in his own home in Hell's Kitchen, New York. For behind closed doors he and his mother survived the erratic, violent outbursts of his father.A powerful father who tempered his rage with affection. To a young boy he was a man both to love and to fear. Until Lorenzo learned a shattering fact that forever changed his life. His father was a murderer.'Unforgettable... a remarkable book.'Newsweek'Dramatic, graphic and wrenching.'The Washington Post'Haunting, fast-paced.'People