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The Poor Boy's Game: A Novel
When US Marshal Frannie Mullen gets one of her best friends shot during a routine apprehension, her career is over. Still reeling from the loss, Frannie is trying to sort out her feelings for Wyatt, the reformed outlaw who loves her, and to support her newly-sober sister, Mae, as she struggles with the fallout of their unstable, violent childhood. Their father Patrick Mullen is a thug, a vicious enforcer for a corrupt Philadelphia union, and when he escapes from prison, bodies of ex-rivals and witnesses begin piling up. Now Frannie is suspected as an accomplice in his escape and targeted by shadowy killers from the Philadelphia underworld. Unsure who to trust, drawing on the skills she's learned as a Marshal and her training as a boxer, Frannie is forced to fight to protect her shattered sister and Patrick's pregnant girlfriend from the most dangerous criminal she's ever faced―her own father. The Poor Boy's Game is the most propulsive, riveting novel yet from crime fiction master Dennis Tafoya.
336 pages, Hardcover
First published April 29, 2014
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10 books69 followersDennis Tafoya is the author of three crime novels, And Dope Thief, The Wolves in Fairmount Park and The Poor Boy’s Game, as well as numerous short stories appearing in magazines and anthologies including Philadelphia Noir and The Best American Mystery Stories . His work has been optioned for film and television.
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March 16, 2014
This wasn't the type of novel I thought it would be at all, but THE POOR BOY'S GAME is an answer to the following question : what happens when you turn a crime novel inside out? You get a family drama. Did I expect that? Not at all. Did I enjoy THE POOR BOY'S GAME? Yes, it sneaked up on me and offered a finale so gut-wrenching and graphic, it'll stay with me for a while.
It took me a while to understand THE POOR BOY'S GAME was written from the sideline of its main conflict, opposing ex-Philadelphia union enforcer and fugitive Patrick Mullen to his old boss Adolph Wurtz. THE POOR BOY'S GAME center around Patrick's two daughters Frannie and Mae, who are trying their best to survive their father's trail of destruction.
It's a stern drama that reminded me of AMC' THE KILLING in terms of emotional tone. A surprisingly realistic, grueling novel.
It took me a while to understand THE POOR BOY'S GAME was written from the sideline of its main conflict, opposing ex-Philadelphia union enforcer and fugitive Patrick Mullen to his old boss Adolph Wurtz. THE POOR BOY'S GAME center around Patrick's two daughters Frannie and Mae, who are trying their best to survive their father's trail of destruction.
It's a stern drama that reminded me of AMC' THE KILLING in terms of emotional tone. A surprisingly realistic, grueling novel.
October 8, 2014
Title - The Poor Boy's Game
Author - Dennis Tafoya
Summary -
When US Marshal Frannie Mullen gets one of her best friends shot during a sting operation, her career is over. Still reeling from the loss, Frannie is trying to sort out her feelings for Wyatt, the reformed outlaw who loves her, and to support her newly-sober sister, Mae, as she struggles with the fallout of their unstable, violent childhood. The murder of her own mother at the hand of her father.
Their father Patrick Mullen is a thug, a vicious enforcer for a corrupt Philadelphia union, and when he escapes from prison, bodies of ex-rivals and witnesses begin piling up. Now Frannie is suspected as an accomplice in his escape and targeted by shadowy killers from the Philadelphia underworld, the US Marshals she used to serve with and the local police. Unsure who to trust, drawing on the skills she's learned as a Marshal and her training as a boxer, Frannie is forced to fight to protect her shattered sister and Patrick’s pregnant girlfriend from the most dangerous criminal she’s ever faced—her own father.
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This is Noir. This is what Noir is suppose to be. Not the Hollywood pretty boy in dark lighting Noir. This is dirty cold live in the shadows with disfunction every second of the day and how can you save those you love when you are barely able to hold yourself up Noir. How? With guts and a gun and more than a few scars. This is Noir and I freaking loved it.
Tafoya writes about the streets of Philiadelphia with grit and determination. His prose is direct and solid. No flash or overindulged prose to set the mood. This is Elmore Leanord and Cormac McCarthy territory. Tafoya may be new (three books to date that I know of) but he is staking his claim and growing.
Frannie Mullen is a deeply flawed character. Her traumatic childhood at the hands of her violently abusive father has left deep emotional crevises in her soul. More so because she knows she is way too much like him. The position with the US Marshals was all she had to show she wasn't Patrick Mullen's daughter and when she loses that she falls into a spiral of depression. But when Patrick escapes she knows she has to pull herself out of it. Because Patrick swore to kill everyone who had anything to do with putting him away and that included his two daughters. With the Marshals believing she had something to do with Patrick's escape, her resources are limited to protect herself and her sister. But Frannie knows, the only way she is going to beat Patrick is to allow herself to become Patrick.
Tafoya allows Frannie to carry the novel, there is no prince to save the day. She has friends, and they help her, but in the end its Frannie making her way through the past and the present to secure the safety of whats left of her family.
A very well executed and strong read.
Author - Dennis Tafoya
Summary -
When US Marshal Frannie Mullen gets one of her best friends shot during a sting operation, her career is over. Still reeling from the loss, Frannie is trying to sort out her feelings for Wyatt, the reformed outlaw who loves her, and to support her newly-sober sister, Mae, as she struggles with the fallout of their unstable, violent childhood. The murder of her own mother at the hand of her father.
Their father Patrick Mullen is a thug, a vicious enforcer for a corrupt Philadelphia union, and when he escapes from prison, bodies of ex-rivals and witnesses begin piling up. Now Frannie is suspected as an accomplice in his escape and targeted by shadowy killers from the Philadelphia underworld, the US Marshals she used to serve with and the local police. Unsure who to trust, drawing on the skills she's learned as a Marshal and her training as a boxer, Frannie is forced to fight to protect her shattered sister and Patrick’s pregnant girlfriend from the most dangerous criminal she’s ever faced—her own father.
Review -
This is Noir. This is what Noir is suppose to be. Not the Hollywood pretty boy in dark lighting Noir. This is dirty cold live in the shadows with disfunction every second of the day and how can you save those you love when you are barely able to hold yourself up Noir. How? With guts and a gun and more than a few scars. This is Noir and I freaking loved it.
Tafoya writes about the streets of Philiadelphia with grit and determination. His prose is direct and solid. No flash or overindulged prose to set the mood. This is Elmore Leanord and Cormac McCarthy territory. Tafoya may be new (three books to date that I know of) but he is staking his claim and growing.
Frannie Mullen is a deeply flawed character. Her traumatic childhood at the hands of her violently abusive father has left deep emotional crevises in her soul. More so because she knows she is way too much like him. The position with the US Marshals was all she had to show she wasn't Patrick Mullen's daughter and when she loses that she falls into a spiral of depression. But when Patrick escapes she knows she has to pull herself out of it. Because Patrick swore to kill everyone who had anything to do with putting him away and that included his two daughters. With the Marshals believing she had something to do with Patrick's escape, her resources are limited to protect herself and her sister. But Frannie knows, the only way she is going to beat Patrick is to allow herself to become Patrick.
Tafoya allows Frannie to carry the novel, there is no prince to save the day. She has friends, and they help her, but in the end its Frannie making her way through the past and the present to secure the safety of whats left of her family.
A very well executed and strong read.
July 2, 2014
I read many thrillers and shoot-em-up novels (I even write a few myself) mostly I don't review these because they are a rather formulaic genre and although many are enjoyable they are, in many ways, predictable.
Elmore Leonard used to stun me once in a while and I can even remember saying, wow! out loud after one of his endings. Generally though, this doesn't happen, and it didn't happen with Tafoya's "Poor Boy's Game." With this book it was more like reading an exciting narrative poem. It moved quickly, packed a wallop about every third paragraph and had an intoxicating rhythm. Many lines I considered masterfully written.
The ending of the book was particularly well done. It's difficult to end a book with emotion and power and you can read some happening in this one. Perhaps most importantly, you can connect with many of the characters and situations. It's an involving story.
A cautionary note: I have a strong attraction to potent female protagonists and there's one here. I trend toward violence as a solution and there's some here. I love hard climbs to redemption and there's one of those here. I love little sparks of hope and there are some of those too.
Recommending books like Poor Boy's Game is like recommending restaurants. Ambiance means a lot, so does the diner's frame of mind and so does the mood of the chef. When they all come together, wow! Keeping in mind this metaphor, if you're a thriller reader you must read this book. If you're not I can almost guarantee it will stagger you in spots and yank your chain. If you liked the movie, "Million Dollar Baby" Tafoya has written a slam dunk for you.
But don't blame me if you can't take a punch. Me, I'm going to put on some head protection and get started reading Dennis' other books.
Elmore Leonard used to stun me once in a while and I can even remember saying, wow! out loud after one of his endings. Generally though, this doesn't happen, and it didn't happen with Tafoya's "Poor Boy's Game." With this book it was more like reading an exciting narrative poem. It moved quickly, packed a wallop about every third paragraph and had an intoxicating rhythm. Many lines I considered masterfully written.
The ending of the book was particularly well done. It's difficult to end a book with emotion and power and you can read some happening in this one. Perhaps most importantly, you can connect with many of the characters and situations. It's an involving story.
A cautionary note: I have a strong attraction to potent female protagonists and there's one here. I trend toward violence as a solution and there's some here. I love hard climbs to redemption and there's one of those here. I love little sparks of hope and there are some of those too.
Recommending books like Poor Boy's Game is like recommending restaurants. Ambiance means a lot, so does the diner's frame of mind and so does the mood of the chef. When they all come together, wow! Keeping in mind this metaphor, if you're a thriller reader you must read this book. If you're not I can almost guarantee it will stagger you in spots and yank your chain. If you liked the movie, "Million Dollar Baby" Tafoya has written a slam dunk for you.
But don't blame me if you can't take a punch. Me, I'm going to put on some head protection and get started reading Dennis' other books.
October 22, 2014
The Poor Boy’s Game
By Dennis Tafoya
Minotaur Books
April 29, 2014
ISBN: 978-1-250-01953-0
Hardcover, 322 pp., $25.99
Reviewed by Gloria Feit
U.S. Marshal Frannie Mullen has had a difficult life: Her father, after years of being an enforcer for a corrupt Philadelphia union, has just escaped from Federal prison; her sister has just come out of rehab after being sober for 28 days; she herself is in a relationship with a reformed outlaw (with similar issues in his family background), her ambivalent feelings notwithstanding. And, as the novel opens, she is conducting a routine apprehension of a fugitive during which one of her best friends/colleagues is killed, for which Frannie, as the team leader, would take the weight. (It was the first time in seven years in the Marshals service that she has had to fire her gun.) But of more immediate concern is her father’s escape. She is being hunted by both law enforcement and the underworld, targeting Frannie, her sister, and her father’s 26-year-old pregnant girlfriend as links to her father, and she doesn’t know who to trust.
The novel is written in the language of the streets of Philadelphia: “. . . there was that thing coming out from behind his eyes, that presence that was inside us and only made itself known when things got as bad as they could be. The part of us that was left over from when we tore at each other with teeth and claws and only stopped when we tasted blood.”
After Frannie is attacked by men who are strangers to her, and bodies begin piling up, the pace of the novel, already totally absorbing, picks up to even greater speed, and it never lets up, with some literally jaw-dropping moments, this reader already holding her breath. A very fast read, the novel is recommended.
By Dennis Tafoya
Minotaur Books
April 29, 2014
ISBN: 978-1-250-01953-0
Hardcover, 322 pp., $25.99
Reviewed by Gloria Feit
U.S. Marshal Frannie Mullen has had a difficult life: Her father, after years of being an enforcer for a corrupt Philadelphia union, has just escaped from Federal prison; her sister has just come out of rehab after being sober for 28 days; she herself is in a relationship with a reformed outlaw (with similar issues in his family background), her ambivalent feelings notwithstanding. And, as the novel opens, she is conducting a routine apprehension of a fugitive during which one of her best friends/colleagues is killed, for which Frannie, as the team leader, would take the weight. (It was the first time in seven years in the Marshals service that she has had to fire her gun.) But of more immediate concern is her father’s escape. She is being hunted by both law enforcement and the underworld, targeting Frannie, her sister, and her father’s 26-year-old pregnant girlfriend as links to her father, and she doesn’t know who to trust.
The novel is written in the language of the streets of Philadelphia: “. . . there was that thing coming out from behind his eyes, that presence that was inside us and only made itself known when things got as bad as they could be. The part of us that was left over from when we tore at each other with teeth and claws and only stopped when we tasted blood.”
After Frannie is attacked by men who are strangers to her, and bodies begin piling up, the pace of the novel, already totally absorbing, picks up to even greater speed, and it never lets up, with some literally jaw-dropping moments, this reader already holding her breath. A very fast read, the novel is recommended.
May 6, 2014
I'm from the south side of Chicago so south Philly, it's people and their behaviors are very familiar to me. Tafoya's language and plots are the most authentic I've ever read. Others try to do this and fail miserably. Tafoya is dead-on. Some of his characters are replicas of people I've known in my lifetime. I didn't love this one. I just couldn't care about Frannie. She is a jerk and I didn't really care when the bad things happened to her. However, Dope Thief is one of the greatest novels I've ever read and Tafoya's language alone is reason enough to read his books and I await the next novel anxiously.
May 12, 2014
THE POOR BOY'S GAME is a fast, furious read... Full of raw Philly scenery and dizzying plot twists. Both books I've read by Dennis Tafoya (the previously enjoyed DOPE THIEF) contain flawed protagonists with family issues. U.S. Marshall Frannie Mullen is a complex character fraught with guilt and angst, who relentlessly rallies when the world turns against her.
The quick pace and action of the story left some details about the characters unanswered, but the journey through Philadelphia's working class underbelly was extremely insightful. I hope Tafoya brings the Mullens back home soon.
The quick pace and action of the story left some details about the characters unanswered, but the journey through Philadelphia's working class underbelly was extremely insightful. I hope Tafoya brings the Mullens back home soon.
April 2, 2015
Breakout the tomato pie! The Poor Boy’s Game brings old Philidelphia and current Philidelphia in this tale about ex-U.S. Marshall Fannie Mullen brought back into the Marshall service to flush out her convicted and recently escaped ex-labor enforcer father. The trail takes Fannie to all parts of the city, masterfully painted by Dennis Tafoya in this gritty, nose bleed, nail biter. You would think Tony Luke was himself serving up his cheesesteaks on this no-getting-off Septa bus. Simply delish!
March 8, 2014
Brilliant and powerful, brutal yet lyrical, The Poor Boy’s Game peels back the tragic layers of lives shaped by crime. Dennis Tafoya’s eloquent, understated tenderness for his characters leaves you reeling from the cruelty they inflict upon each other, and that life sometimes inflicts upon us all. A deeply satisfying read that nonetheless leaves you wanting more.
September 5, 2025
Rock solid, meat & potatoes, noir-ish thriller set in Philadelphia with cops, feds, thugs, and more. Tightly written and nicely paced. I read this one leisurely and really enjoyed the ride.
This book clocks in at a little over 300 pages. None of it is flab. Everything is there for a reason.
I can imagine someone reading this book 30 or 40 years from now and getting a peek at Philadelphia as it was in the 2010s. Of course it works for us reading in the present day too.
This book clocks in at a little over 300 pages. None of it is flab. Everything is there for a reason.
I can imagine someone reading this book 30 or 40 years from now and getting a peek at Philadelphia as it was in the 2010s. Of course it works for us reading in the present day too.
September 24, 2021
I tend to gravitate towards fantasy so I was excited to try something a little different and pick up this mystery. It was actually pretty intriguing and I did enjoy it. Some moments were a bit slow or confusing, but overall it was a pretty good book.
September 4, 2020
The most idiotic, pretentious crime novel I’ve come across. The worst.
June 14, 2025
Just too convoluted for my taste.
August 20, 2022
After a stakeout goes wrong, US Marshall Frannie Mullen quits her job. Shaken and full of self-blame, she discovers her felon father has escaped prison. He’s on a mission to finish what he started when he murdered their mother: kill Frannie and her fresh-out-of-rehab sister Mae. With the help of her sort of boyfriend Wyatt, childhood cop buddy Mari, and a Marshall friend called Sleeper, Frannie searches for her deadly daddy. But Frannie’s not the only one looking for former mob enforcer Patrick Mullen. He’s gone to war with his old organized crime associates who want to keep him from spilling secrets---no matter what the collateral damage.
I found the first chapter of The Poor Boy’s Game a bit hard to follow due to the large number of characters, some of whom are referred to by multiple names. While the bloated cast was a problematic issue for me for the entirety of the book, I’m glad I powered through, because the characters and the plot made the book a worthwhile read. To be fair, the plethora of characters, added to the mystery elements by providing plenty of red herrings, and TaFoya’s ability to infuse so many story people with unique personalities is nothing short of masterful.
Frannie makes the perfect protagonist. She’s self-aware enough to know that choosing a career in law enforcement kept her from ending up with a bunch of kids and an imprisoned baby daddy or two. Yet, she fails to see that her sister Mae with her self-destructive ways is more a mirror than she’d like to admit. Frannie’s destructiveness is directed outward rather than inward like Mae. She fights and pushes people away. She relies on Wyatt to pick her up when she goes on a bender, but doesn’t want to admit her feelings for him. The choice of unavailable intimate partners such as former felons and married coworkers reveals scars from her parents’ toxic relationship.
Still, people sense goodness in Frannie, from Wyatt, who’s a good guy despite his sketchy past, and Sleeper, who risks his career to support her. TaFoya constructed a number of strong women characters in Frannie’s sister-in-spirit Mari, ER nurse Khandi, tough-as-nails neighborhood gal Bertie, and Patrick’s pregnant accomplice Tina.
Full of characters with agency, the story barrels along, yet the well-drawn characters made me care about who was hurting and who was helping. I also appreciated the nods to art throughout, from the paintings done by Frannie’s dead mother to the Winslow Homer paintings at various locations as well as the strange street art, which adds surrealism to the mood and atmosphere. The Poor Boy’s Game satisfied the adrenaline junkie in me and provided plenty of resonance by creating an emotionally satisfying read.
I found the first chapter of The Poor Boy’s Game a bit hard to follow due to the large number of characters, some of whom are referred to by multiple names. While the bloated cast was a problematic issue for me for the entirety of the book, I’m glad I powered through, because the characters and the plot made the book a worthwhile read. To be fair, the plethora of characters, added to the mystery elements by providing plenty of red herrings, and TaFoya’s ability to infuse so many story people with unique personalities is nothing short of masterful.
Frannie makes the perfect protagonist. She’s self-aware enough to know that choosing a career in law enforcement kept her from ending up with a bunch of kids and an imprisoned baby daddy or two. Yet, she fails to see that her sister Mae with her self-destructive ways is more a mirror than she’d like to admit. Frannie’s destructiveness is directed outward rather than inward like Mae. She fights and pushes people away. She relies on Wyatt to pick her up when she goes on a bender, but doesn’t want to admit her feelings for him. The choice of unavailable intimate partners such as former felons and married coworkers reveals scars from her parents’ toxic relationship.
Still, people sense goodness in Frannie, from Wyatt, who’s a good guy despite his sketchy past, and Sleeper, who risks his career to support her. TaFoya constructed a number of strong women characters in Frannie’s sister-in-spirit Mari, ER nurse Khandi, tough-as-nails neighborhood gal Bertie, and Patrick’s pregnant accomplice Tina.
Full of characters with agency, the story barrels along, yet the well-drawn characters made me care about who was hurting and who was helping. I also appreciated the nods to art throughout, from the paintings done by Frannie’s dead mother to the Winslow Homer paintings at various locations as well as the strange street art, which adds surrealism to the mood and atmosphere. The Poor Boy’s Game satisfied the adrenaline junkie in me and provided plenty of resonance by creating an emotionally satisfying read.
July 16, 2015
Mysterious Book Report No. 165
by John Dwaine McKenna
Philadelphia, one of the oldest cities in America, has been the background for innumerable dramas from the Continental Congress to the signing of the Declaration of Independence to who-knows-how-many Rocky movies. It’s the fourth largest city in the United States, a one-time capitol of the U.S. as well as a cultural and financial center. A place of arts, history and refinement, Philadelphia has a grittier side as well—making it the source of some excellent crime fiction—like this weeks MBR Number 165.
The Poor Boys Game, (Minotaur Books, $25.99, 322 pages, ISBN 978-1-250-01953-0) by Dennis Tafoya takes place on the down and dirty streets of the Philadelphia the tourist brochures don’t tell you about. Filled with realistic dialogue and real personalities, it has as its central character and protagonist a sharp, well-defined and sympathetic woman named Frannie Mullen. She’s a U.S. Marshal who gets her best friend shot and killed on what should have been a routine arrest, thus ending her law enforcement career. Her personal life is complicated. She’s got a biker boyfriend named Wyatt who’s a reformed outlaw that she’s trying to sort out her feelings about; a newly-sober and fragile younger sister she’s trying to protect while helping her get over their neglected, abused childhood; and then there’s her estranged father who breaks out of prison. He’s a thug and an enforcer for a corrupt Philadelphia union. Then, when the murders of ex-rivals of the union start to pile up, and Frannie is suspected of helping to engineer her father’s prison break, she’s in the fight of her life as she tries to help her sister, clear her name, figure out her relationship with her boyfriend, and, oh yeah, help put her father back in prison. This is a propulsive, action packed thrill ride that you just can’t seem to quit reading. Dennis Tofoya is another up and coming young author to keep an eye on. I’m sure you can expect more great fiction from this talented writer.
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Philadelphia, one of the oldest cities in America, has been the background for innumerable dramas from the Continental Congress to the signing of the Declaration of Independence to who-knows-how-many Rocky movies. It’s the fourth largest city in the United States, a one-time capitol of the U.S. as well as a cultural and financial center. A place of arts, history and refinement, Philadelphia has a grittier side as well—making it the source of some excellent crime fiction—like this weeks MBR Number 165.
The Poor Boys Game, (Minotaur Books, $25.99, 322 pages, ISBN 978-1-250-01953-0) by Dennis Tafoya takes place on the down and dirty streets of the Philadelphia the tourist brochures don’t tell you about. Filled with realistic dialogue and real personalities, it has as its central character and protagonist a sharp, well-defined and sympathetic woman named Frannie Mullen. She’s a U.S. Marshal who gets her best friend shot and killed on what should have been a routine arrest, thus ending her law enforcement career. Her personal life is complicated. She’s got a biker boyfriend named Wyatt who’s a reformed outlaw that she’s trying to sort out her feelings about; a newly-sober and fragile younger sister she’s trying to protect while helping her get over their neglected, abused childhood; and then there’s her estranged father who breaks out of prison. He’s a thug and an enforcer for a corrupt Philadelphia union. Then, when the murders of ex-rivals of the union start to pile up, and Frannie is suspected of helping to engineer her father’s prison break, she’s in the fight of her life as she tries to help her sister, clear her name, figure out her relationship with her boyfriend, and, oh yeah, help put her father back in prison. This is a propulsive, action packed thrill ride that you just can’t seem to quit reading. Dennis Tofoya is another up and coming young author to keep an eye on. I’m sure you can expect more great fiction from this talented writer.
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January 29, 2015
A very unexpected crime novel. Tafoya treads in the world street-level criminals and estranged families, both with a sympathetic and unprejudiced eye. France Mullen is a complicated protagonist we won't soon forget.
May 11, 2015
Gritty and propulsive ... The dysfunctional family dynamics are key to the story, which made it more complex and involving to me. I also appreciated the insights into the non-tourist aspects of Philadelphia.
May 22, 2014
DNF.
Very disappointing effort from a writer I considered very promising based on previous two books.
While previous efforts rang true, this was very flat and stilted.
Very disappointing effort from a writer I considered very promising based on previous two books.
While previous efforts rang true, this was very flat and stilted.
April 9, 2017
Rock solid, meat & potatoes, noir-ish thriller set in Philadelphia with cops, feds, thugs, and more. Tightly written and nicely paced. I read this one leisurely and really enjoyed the ride.
This book clocks in at a little over 300 pages. None of it is flab. Everything is there for a reason.
I can imagine someone reading this book 30 or 40 years from now and getting a peek at Philadelphia as it was in the 2010s. Of course it works for us reading in the present day too.
This book clocks in at a little over 300 pages. None of it is flab. Everything is there for a reason.
I can imagine someone reading this book 30 or 40 years from now and getting a peek at Philadelphia as it was in the 2010s. Of course it works for us reading in the present day too.
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