The Stolen Summer - JBC Volume1

Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 1968. Eight-year-old Joshua Fuentes lives on the fifth floor of a crowded tenement, where survival means mastering the unspoken rules of the block. Joshua is a watcher. He reads rooms the way other kids read comic books, tracking every mechanical pipe-click, raised voice, and closed fist. In a volatile world built by adults, hyper-vigilance is the only safety code he knows. Then the radio broadcasts a name that changes everything: Toño Bicicleta.