Day Taylor

"What does an eleven-year-old boy do when his classmates call him "Dumbo" and his parents don't seem to knew that he exists? His mother, the beautiful Faigele, spends her days pushing her two-year-old son Marvin around in a stroller and barely hears Jerome's clarinet playing. The answer for Jerome Charyn is to go to the local movie house and hide out for a few hours every day. At the movies, he can escape and not be himself for a little while. One day, while watching Samson and Delilah for the seventh time that week, he is suddenly grabbed from his seat and dragged down a flight of stairs, where he winds up being introduced to a whole new way of life by three "cellar rats," as Jerome likes to call them.". "They make him a part of their group and he soon finds himself dressed in a Feuerman & Marx suit collecting money for Farouk, the local gangster. Many of the men remember his mother, the Dark Lady, from her days as dealer of their neighborhood poker game."--BOOK JACKET.

Dream Book #1 THE MORRISONS - Ezra, the proud patriarch; Prudence; Tolerance; and the beautiful Susannah - a woman bound to her elders by duty and forbidden love. They left New York to follow the charismatic Sam Brannan on a periolous journey around Cape Horn, seeking refuge in California, lured by the vision of a New Zion. THE McKAYS - Forced from their Illinois farm, Sean, Mary, and their three lovely daughters would join the Donner's wagon train, traveling overland toward a new life in the virgin West. They were the outcasts and empire builders, the faithful and the godless, the lovers and the losers. Battling the savage elements of their own unbridled passions, they reached out to seize the future. Dream Series: The Magnificent Dream Sands of Gold