The Hated Ones (VIA Folios)

About the Author\nMike Fiorito is currently an Associate Editor for Mad Swirl Magazine and a regular contributor to the Red Hook Star Revue. THE HATED ONES (Bordighera Press, 2021) is his fifth book. His other books include Falling from Trees, Call Me Guido, Freud's Haberdashery Habits and Hallucinating Huxley. Mike lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two boys.\nFiction. Italian American Studies. Mike Fiorito shoots the brief documentary tales of THE HATED ONES in a vivid black and white, bringing to life a "Basketball Diaries"-like world of ne'er-do-wells growing up on the wrong side of whatever tracks separate the silver spoons from the rest of us with our wayward fathers, disappointed mothers, and ill-defined dreams of being somebody.