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Angel Cordero

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I drive a tanker truck out of Tampa, Florida. I never planned to write a book.

I wrote Stay Down on late nights after twelve-hour shifts, because my brother Melo told me our story deserved to be told. It's a memoir of growing up in 1980s Brooklyn — Whipple Street, the Farragut projects, the welfare hotels. Six of us in a one-bedroom apartment. A father who drank. A mother who was sixteen when she married him. Government cheese lines, Conan Soup, and a kid's plan to stop the violence with a pipe under the bed.

It's for my brother Ruly, who loved every stray he ever found and didn't make it out. He was fourteen.

I didn't soften any of it. I wrote it the way I'd tell it to you across a table — plain and true. There's no big dramatic victory at th
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It Happened Again

Last week, Stay Down climbed to around #3,800 in the Kindle Store.

Today, it happened again.

The book reached #4,097 overall and hit #1 in Survival Biographies & Memoirs. Right now, it is still sitting at #3 in that category.

The first time it happened, I didn’t know whether it was a one-time spike.

Seeing it happen again tells me it wasn’t.

More people are finding the book. The Amazon rating is now 4. Read more of this blog post »
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" Thank you, George. You read it all the way down — and you landed on the part that stays with me most: same house, same start, and my brothers and I di ...more "
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“You'll help me kill Papa."

I was ten. My brother was eleven. This is a true story.”
Angel Cordero, Stay Down: A Memoir of Brooklyn, Brotherhood, and Survival

“The only way to stop getting hurt was to become the thing that hurt first.”
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