Love and Bullets: A comedy with a body count

By Jeffrey Gentile

When Chicago's most famous female impersonator and his gangster lover take a battered, banished teenager into their home and hearts, they become a family as real as any bound by blood. It's the kind of family Norman Rockwell would paint if he were still alive - and doing acid. With heart, humor, and grit, they survive threats to their happy home from a greedy IRS flunky looking for a big score, an FBI agent with an axe to grind, a clingy male model with the prettiest feet in America, a meatpacking heir with a taste for S&M, a kinky trophy wife, and a hit man who hits the wrong man. Along the way, their family grows to include a hunky just-out-of-the-closet real estate heir, an orphan whose parents were killed by falling cows, and a wife on the run from her Bible-beating husband. It's just another day on Aberdeen Street. It's a story of love, loss, dreams, nightmares, comedy and tragedy, with a few dead bodies littered along the way, and an unfortunate incident involving a vat of eucalyptus-scented wax.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1470095785
• ISBN13: 9781470095789
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"