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“They’re saps because they risk their lives for strangers.”
“That’s Pop talking.”
“You’re goddamn right that’s Pop talking.”
“They risk … they risk their lives for their country.”
“Your country ain’t your blood—you remember that.”
In 1971, the year before his novel The Godfather became a film, Mario Puzo wrote of growing up in Hell’s Kitchen as the son of Italian immigrants.
Nick Ripatrazone has written for Rolling Stone, GQ, and The Atlantic. His latest book is "The Habit of Poetry: The Literary Lives of Nuns in Mid-century America."
