Scott Carlin doesn’t know what to do with his life. Since his father died in a tragic accident and his sister exchanged the parental nest for a room on the university campus, he has lived alone with his mother. He shouldn’t know about school. He doesn’t have work, or at least not for long. Neither hobbies, except tattooing his friends. But open a tattoo restaurant? Now his mother’s new boyfriend thinks that’s a really ridiculous business plan.
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The story of The king of Staten Island is that of just about every small-scale tragicomedy about a twenties who is searching in life. Not bad in itself, because it is a story that brings comfort and warmth …
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