Union Square - Italian Edition Author:Ernesto Gastaldi This is a story about greed, love and redemption. It is a story about GERALDO (GERRY) ECHEVARRIA, who lives in a cardboard shelter on the streets of San Francisco. When he was eleven, he left his Puerto Rican mother, who had been seduced and abandoned by the homeless drifter who left her pregnant. Gerry joined up with Old Washington, a black ... more »trumpet player, who raised the boy and taught him how to play the horn, pick pockets and survive on the streets. Gerry did survive, but now lives in hopeless resignation.« less