[2] In 1991 Paci began his multi-novel Bildungsroman focused on Mark Trecroci with Black Blood and Under the Bridge.
Black Blood is a novel in the guise of the fictional character's memoirs, Marco Trecroci (Italian for Mark Threecrosses), that he keeps as his confession and his way to pay for his juvenile sins.
The protagonist is a kid born in Italy and raised in Canada who, led astray by the North American way of life, has intentionally abandoned his parents' world, losing his roots.
The world of Black Blood and Under the Bridge is the same working class, ethnic enclave in Sault Ste.
In a book review called "Italian Identity" author Giovanni Bonanno describes, "Part of Paci's success in the novel lies in his ability to manoeuver the reader's sympathies for certain characters and for what they stand for".
[7] Frank Paci has demonstrated a sustained commitment to his art and a determination both to enunciate his own history and to provide a voice for those around him so often characterized by silence.
In so doing, he has enriched the fabric of our national literature and mapped out and testified to a previously unexpressed dimension of the culture of Sault Ste.
[7] The Canadian Press interviewed him on his honorary Doctor of Letters which he received in 2003, and he simply thinks of himself as a very invisible and "on the margin" writer.