David Arturi: 3 books

THE BELVEDERES OF BROOKLYN is David Arturi's tribute to the Brooklyn of his youth in the Depression-era 1930s. It is part memoir, part fiction, but with few exceptions, he declines to tell us which is which. Though there's a huge cast of characters representing a cross section of Brooklynites,...

Underage for the Navy, Ken Mason enlists in the United States Maritime Service and undergoes radio operator training during the summer after graduating from high school. He is not yet 18.Currently, Nazi U-boats in a feeding frenzy are sinking dozens of ships along the US East Coast and out to sea....

Against the background of the Occupation, a tragic love story unfolds that centers on an adventurous American merchant marine radio officer and the surviving daughter of a Japanese military family whose father and sons, killed in sea battles during World War II, studies under her Zen master in an...