The original screenplay for an eight-part television series, Motherless Children is both a riotous family saga, and a sobering confrontation with the 20th century’s white American working class as it struggles to overcome inherited prejudice.

Set in the Long Island suburbs and on the girders of the Manhattan skyline
in the early 1970’s, this dramatic comedy follows the trials and tribulations
of the stoical, wisecracking Canadian immigrant clan - the Fulton’s.

When his wife dies young, Jim Fulton is left with four children and a
neighborhood of relatives willing to help raise them.

But though loved and respected, with a profound sense of responsibility
for his family and his work, Jim grapples clumsily with a world changing
fast and violently, with the rise and fall of union labor, shifting waves
of immigration, growing discontent with the US war in Vietnam, pervasive
racial injustice, early efforts at gay pride and the growth of feminist
sensibilities amongst working class women.

This is the original screenplay for an eight-part television
series.

Publication date: March 2, 2021
Publisher: Elboro Press
ISBN: 978-1-7321817-4-8
Perfect Bound Paperback, 460 pages
Dimensions: 5” x 8”
Retail Price: $24.95