Blood pudding: confessions of an immigrant boy pittsburgh, 1920 - Ivan Cox

Blood Pudding renders vividly, at times violently, the raw struggles of the colorful Malinowski family, immigrants from Poland.

Gritty, patient, always loving, their son Tad runs a gauntlet of painful and humiliating boyhood cruelties.

Above Tad's clear voice, we hear the cold constant heartbeat of a growing industrial city, whose restless yet noble soul surely resides in the lives of these very immigrants.