From the multi-award-winning author of MADNESS: The Man Who Changed Basketball comes another inspiring novel about Friends, Family... and Baseball.

2021 Literary Titan Book Awards - Gold Award Winner
2021 Book Excellence Award Winner
2021 Readers' Favorite Book Awards - Gold Winner, Fiction Sports
2021 International Book Awards - Finalist, Sports

"Experience baseball, lessons of a great coach, team players, failures and rewards. I invite you to a reality, perhaps very different from yours. I have no doubt that you will want to share this book with young people who are coming of age. As a mother and grandmother, I can say with no hesitation that this book should be required reading for teens. Too many young people are emersed in a reality shaped by the lights, sounds, vibrations, and conversations emitting from electronics. They need to know that it is OK to seek out the warmth, even risk of personal encounters between family, peers, school, and community life." 5-Star Review from Global Marketing Network

The Bronx, New York, 1972

BEING BROTHERS is a story, within a story, within a story, sparked by the fortuitous, life-changing epiphany of Mark Marino, a content middle-aged man who discovers an untapped well of repressed, unrealized dreams.

Another character, Jack Amato, frequently revisits the Neighborhood to ground himself by the sights, smells and memories of the past, through the coming-of-age experiences of Jackie, the spacey, slightly awkward, yet lovable version of his younger self who grew up in the Bronx in the 1970s --- a time of street games, young love, best friends, little league, mean teachers, and the love/hate, friend/enemy dynamics of sibling rivalry.

While Mark, Jack, and Jackie exist in separate worlds, they are all connected by the outcome of Mark's serendipitous moment.

BEING BROTHERS takes the reader on a journey back in time, to a much simpler era, and examines the experiences of family, friendship, life lessons, and the profound impact of our past. For those who lived it, enjoy the story of your past, and for those who didn't, sit down, get comfortable, and enjoy the ride.

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Other Books by Mike DeLucia:

Born for The Game
MADNESS: The Man Who Changed Basketball
Settling a Score
Boycott the Yankees

Visit Mike DeLucia's Website: www.booksbymikedelucia.com