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Mob Adjacent: A Family Memoir

Mob Adjacent: A Family Memoir

By: Jeffrey Gentile and Michael Gentile Jr. September 28, 2020 Trade paperback | 453 pgs. Available now!

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An amazing memoir. Jeffrey and Michael Gentile’s childhood was The Wonder Years meets The Sopranos.

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  • Jeffrey Gentile

    Jeffrey Gentile was born in Chicago, Illinois. He is a marketing copywriter for a global firm and the author of two novels, Love and Bullets and Time Travel for Beginners. He has a daughter and a granddaughter and lives with his husband Jeffrey Jordan in Pasadena, California. Read More

  • Michael Gentile Jr.

    Michael Gentile was born in Chicago, Illinois. He is a buyer for a produce wholesaler at the South Water Market. Michael lives with his wife Lou Ann in Lisle, Illinois. They have five children, fourteen grandchildren, and two great grandchildren (at this count). Read More

  • “A fascinating book…a fascinating read. Mob Adjacent will open your eyes. The stories are true and genuine and heartfelt, and there’s a real honesty in this book.”

    Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune
  • “This is my kind of Chicago story. You cannot put it down. You want a Netflix series, this is it.”

    Roe Conn, WGN Radio

Summary

Mob Adjacent: A Family Memoir takes an acid trip down memory lane as brothers Jeffrey and Michael Gentile, Jr. discover a parallel world hidden behind a suburban façade. For them, The Wonder Years collides with The Sopranos. Mobsters come to dinner, contract hits come with warning notices, and thieves deliver merchandise and people. How does something like that happen to an ordinary family?

Blame it on the company they keep. Friends and acquaintances include legendary crime boss Sam Giancana, Jackie Cerone; and an assortment of hoodlums, gangsters, bone-breakers, and second-story guys, with cameo appearances by Tony Accardo, Frank Sinatra, Leo Durocher, Jackie Gleason, Art Carney, Joan Collins, Liza Minelli, and Elizabeth Taylor. For the Gentile brothers, life at the intersection of Hoodlum and Gangster yields dividends and teaches lessons. This is their story.

Reviews

  • “Normally we can experience organized crime from a safe distance, from the page or screen – for the Gentile brothers, the action was right before their childhood eyes.”

    Larry Potash, WGN-TV
  • “A fascinating book…a fascinating read. Mob Adjacent will open your eyes. The stories are true and genuine and heartfelt, and there’s a real honesty in this book.”

    Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune
  • “This is my kind of Chicago story. You cannot put it down. You want a Netflix series, this is it.”

    Roe Conn, WGN Radio
  • “I love this book. A fascinating account. You’ve got to read this book before the movie.”

    John Kass, Chicago Tribune

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