Have you ever wondered where Lucky Luciano got his Speak Easy’s liquor? At this author talk, you can hear about the story of his Italian haberdasher who became his unintentional gin supplier.  Meet the Roaring Twenties NY elite from this novel to get an authentic look at the Italian connections that flowed through the Speak Easy era and beyond.  Follow this family through women’s suffrage, flappers, WWII politics and progress in hat fashions and aviation technology.  Learn the story of how DeMarinis’s grandmother drove a Packard to transport liquor during the prohibition period.