Brooklyn, NE

“Brooklyn, Nebraska” ... an oxymoron? Not to the central characters in a story about a group of friends who were born at the midway mark of the 20th Century and grew up in a tight-knit Italian-American neighborhood of Omaha.AJ Agrigento and his pals battle the challenges of parochial school, the Sisters of Mercy, catholic girls, cops, and confession ... while crusin’ chicks, digging Fender guitars, booze, dope, sports, the Point Spread, and Billboard’s Top 100. But when AJ realizes he isn’t going to follow Mickey Mantle as the Yankees’next centerfielder, he feels his world has ended.He’s not quite thirteen.However, watching The Ed Sullivan Show, Sunday night, February 9, 1964, everything changes. By the time John, Paul, George and Ringo bow to the audience, AJ knows what he wants to do with the rest of his life. But playing gigs in and around his hometown, he comes to believe that Omaha isn’t big enough to provide him with the opportunity and inspiration he needs to fulfill his dream: To pen a Grammy Award-winning hit song. So, after bouncing around a couple years after high school he splits for the West Coast.Set against the backdrop of the turbulent 1960s, Brooklyn, NE, will resonate with the millions and millions of Baby Boomers who came-of-age during the period between 1959 and 1975, as it details the trials and tribulations of AJ and his pals from Omaha’s Old Neighborhood, who prove you don’t have to be from the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn to seek fun adventure, only to discover a little something called life along the way.