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The Cafe Chronicles 2: To Have and To Holster
I'm hard at work on the next installment of the Love and Bullets series. Now re-christened The Cafe Chronicles, the story of Chicago's most famous female impersonator and his gangster lover. follows their "son" Scott and his partner Ben they await the press verdict on their deluxe B&B. But like everything with this unconventional family, the path forward isn't smooth.
In the tradition of Maurice and Brideshead Revisited
The Shadow Lovers
In March 1912, RMS Olympic leaves Southampton for New York. Among its passengers are Daniel Jeric and his hastily married bride, Celia. One carries great hope, the other a dark secret.
LGBTQ Fiction
The Velvet Closet
Hollywood, November 27, 1947. Allen Matson stands on the cusp of becoming a legendary star. He only needs to do two little things – ditch the boyfriend he loves and marry the actress the studio has chosen for his wife.
Anything is possible when money is no object.
Money Is No Object
Follow two women whose lives are marked by trauma -- one trying to find her future, the other trying to forget the past.
Time Travel for Beginners
An adventure for all ages
There's no telling what might happen when a young boy discovers the secrets of time, the meaning of life, and the flexibility of death.
The Gardner home is a busy place in the 1980s, with two parents and six children leading eight different lives. As the youngest, 10-year-old Max is often overlooked, to his great delight. But nothing prepares him for the adventures waiting inside that battered, black steamer trunk, where he finds a book that gives him the power to alter events and leap across time. Things get complicated after he accidentally raises the dead and puts his entire family at risk. Now, Max has to sort out the mess to avert catastrophe and build a relationship with his distant, disapproving father. Time Travel for Beginners shows what’s possible with hope, help, and a little prayer.
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Love and Bullets
The Cafe Chronicles, Book 1
When a nightclub entertainer and a gangster take a battered teenager into their home and hearts, they become a family as real as any bound by blood, and “bringing up baby” gets a whole new meaning.
There’s nothing unusual about the family living on Aberdeen Street. They’re like every other family. “Mom” is Chicago’s most famous drag queen – Billy Blanchard, better known as Blanche D’Almond, belle of Café Muse; “dad” is Sammy "The Pig" Gavone, a mid-level mobster; and their “son” is the banished child of religious fanatics. They’re the kind of family Norman Rockwell would paint if he were still alive – and doing acid.
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Mob Adjacent: A Family Memoir
One of the "best independent nonfiction books of the year" -- The Chicago Writers Association
Take 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?
A chance meeting led actor and filmmaker Gino Cafarelli to a book about two very different brothers whose idea of normal was anything but normal. Cafarelli became convinced that their unprecedented first-person accounts of life at the intersection of Hoodlum and Gangster needed to be told on the screen.
Set on a single day -- November 18, 1963 -- Mob Adjacent finds the Gentile family turning to an old friend from their old neighborhood for help solving a dangerous problem.
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Learn more about the Mob Adjacent story
Mob Adjacent: The documentary series
Our 10-webisode documentary takes viewers to the intersection of Hoodlum & Gangster.
Jeffrey Gentile
Meet the author
Every writer gets asked the same question: "Where do you get your ideas?" The answer is easy: I have no idea. They just come to me. I'll see a photo or hear a phrase or read a story in the news, and the wheels start turning. Sometimes ideas come to me in my dreams. Sometimes it's a whole story. Sometimes it's a character, and I'll start wondering what happens to that person.
I've been imagining stories and creating characters since I was a seven-year-old child in Chicago. Mom marveled when I sat beside my baby sister's playpen and invented fairy tales for her. I remember clearly Mom asking, "Where did you hear that story, Jeffrey?" I told her I made it up. A decade later, I wrote my first (dreadful) novel, and I've been writing ever since.
The Chicago Writer’s Association named Mob Adjacent: A Family Memoir one of the "best independent nonfiction books of the year” in 2021. The recognition capped more than two decades of professional writing – everything from undercover guest reports for a luxury hotel chain to advertising copy for a global real estate firm, a menu for a Beverly Hills spa, and magazine articles for an insurance company. Long-form fiction has always been my enduring passion. The act of creation brings me great joy when the characters speak for themselves, or the story takes me in unanticipated directions.
