03/07/2022
A new book! Former ABQ Free Press editor Dennis Domrzalski has written a new book! It's called Disturbers Row and it's available as a paperback and eBook on Amazon and other online retailers. It's about growing up Catholic in the city of Chicago in the 1960s and battling crazed and abusive nuns. It's also about the freedom that kids used to have to just be kids. There were no such things as helicopter parents.
Here's the back cover blurb:
Chicago, mid-1960s. Five seventh-graders, the Disturbers of Room 204 at Our Lady of Grace Catholic School, are a menace to the nuns and to society. The Disturbers refuse to conform, they challenge the nuns’ abusive authority and question idiotic rules at every turn. Of course they are routinely beaten silly by the nuns for their attitude of defiance.
Outside of school, the guys and their pals roam their blue-collar neighborhood at will, having fun and getting into trouble. Disturbers Row is a trip back to a time that no longer exists, a time when it was perfectly acceptable for nuns to beat up children, a time when kids were free to be kids and when they used their imaginations to dream, have fun, break rules and learn and grow. No adults needed, wanted, or even interested.
Join the Disturbers as they drive Sister Mary Zita and the other nuns insane. Join them as they play guns and war, hockey, baseball; as they fight, shoplift, smoke, and have fun while crisscrossing their neighborhood and city. You'll have a blast.
https://www.amazon.com/Disturbers-Row-Dennis-F-Domrzalski/dp/0985181354/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1ZUJGSFCBEEBG&keywords=disturbers+row&qid=1646665386&s=books&sprefix=%2Cstripbooks%2C138&sr=1-1
Disturbers Row