Chapter 10

??Hi, Mr. Daly,?? he said, closing the office door behind him.

??Hi, Sean. What can I do for you???

He told me he had an interview later and wanted to know if I??d look over his resume to make sure everything was okay. I read through it while he sat nervously across from me, fidgeting with his tie. I could tell from his address that he lived in the Fishtown section of Philadelphia. It was a working-class, largely white area of the city that was trying to gentrify. Many of the lifelong residents resented the hip and trendy young interlopers who were moving to the enclave in search of larger and cheaper housing after being priced out of Center City. Sean, clearly, was not part of the hip and trendy crowd. Everything about him, from his looks to his name and even the way he dressed, indicated that he was Fishtown born and bred.