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Fleeing from a corrupt government and a nefarious priest whose ill-begotten money forever entwines their lives, the LaRosa family encounters the Spanish Influenza, World War I, and the Great Molasses Flood. Giovanni Giolitti, Barolomeo Vanzetti, FDR, and Vito Cascio Ferro are thrust into this fictional novel based on actual events.

Torn between the malignity of politics, war, and the Mafia and the benefit each can provide whether for the many or the one, conflict arises between a religious zealot and his wife, who believes that God helps those who help themselves. Meanwhile, their eight children take on parental traits in varying degrees and smack head-on into their own destinies.