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Stay Down: A Memoir of Brooklyn, Brotherhood, and Survival
Paperback
Publisher Price: $14.99
Publisher: Cordero Publishing
Published: Jun 2 2026
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.34 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
You'll help me kill Papa.
Angel Cordero was ten years old when his brother told him. The pipe was already under the bed.
Their father was a convicted murderer who drank and turned on his family. He beat their mother. He killed the animals his sons loved. He made fear so ordinary that two children came to believe killing him was the only way to make it stop.
Four boys. Two parents. One bedroom on Whipple Street. When the welfare check came, their father took the cash into the city and drank it away. After that came the government cheese line, eviction, homeless shelters, a welfare hotel, and the Farragut projects.
Ruly, the brother who spoke those words, rescued every stray he found and dreamed of owning a farm someday. Melo held the family together. Mikey drew. Angel watched, learned, and eventually became dangerous enough to survive the world around him.
Stay Down is the true story of that childhood, told the way memory comes back-in pieces. Names unchanged. Nothing softened. Nobody made to look better than they were, including the author.
It is a story about four brothers protecting one another while poverty, addiction, and violence slowly reshape them. About what was done to them-and what they did themselves. About the difference between surviving where you came from and finally escaping what it left inside you.
No mansion at the end.
Something better. A life. A real one. One where nobody is hitting anybody, the heat works, and there's food in the house.
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