Journalist Nancy Rommelmann's memoir of growing up in Brooklyn Heights in the 1970s.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
By Erica Payne
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Nancy Rommelmann brings out the flavor of Brooklyn Heights in a down-to-earth, heartfelt snapshot of what it was like to grow up during a very special place and time. While it is not by any means a "flowers-and-hearts" look at life, it is very real, very compelling, and, at times, brutal in its honesty. Nancy shows a teenager's perspective of life while using very adult matter-of-factness and language. Anyone who has been honest in their teenage rebellion will relate.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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This story is so compelling because it really captures a place and time, and it's a very interesting place and time - Brooklyn, NY in the 1970s. The characters are great, really well drawn personas that jump off the page in three dimensions, and embody the elements of that moment in history - the ethnicities, egos, ethos, and environment that ripple with texture and depth. You can feel the struggle and striving of the characters at a critical juncture in their life, with the era's issues - socio-economic, racial, moral, and individual. The characters are both larger than life and highly relatable, stereotypes and completely recognizable, and always intriguing. And finally, the story is just plain funny and dramatic, full of heart and a pleasure to read because it is simply and finely written. Bravo Ms. Rommelmann!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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I can imagine myself in Brooklyn, living in her shoes. A fun glimpse into BRK in some of the more interesting times.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
2.0 out of 5 stars
Time changes memories
"The Past is a foreign country, they do things differently there" -Hartley
The book is an accurate description of one slice of NYC in the 70's. Read more
The book is an accurate description of one slice of NYC in the 70's. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Jack Farmer
5.0 out of 5 stars
Another time, another New York, another world
I was born in 1977, and could only imagine what growing up in New York was like for kids of that era. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Jackie Danicki
5.0 out of 5 stars
Compelling memoir
As someone who grew up in pretty much the same general time and place, I found this memoir fascinating in two distinct ways. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Aeon J. Skoble
More About the Author
Nancy Rommelmann is the author of the novel THE BAD MOTHER (2011), THE QUEENS OF MONTAGUE STREET (2012), a memoir of growing up in Brooklyn Heights in the 1970s that was excerpted as a New York Times Magazine "Lives" column, and TRANSPORTATION, a collection of short fiction released in 2013.
Her nonfiction appears in the LA Weekly, the Los Angeles Times, Reason, Byliner and other publications. She writes about people and how they do and do not fit themselves into the culture, their dreams, delusions, and sometimes criminal behavior.
She is currently at work on TO THE BRIDGE, the story of Amanda Stott-Smith, who threw her two young children from a bridge in 2009.
She lives in Portland, Oregon.
Website: www.nancyrommelmann.com
Blog: http://nancyrommelmann.typepad.com
Her nonfiction appears in the LA Weekly, the Los Angeles Times, Reason, Byliner and other publications. She writes about people and how they do and do not fit themselves into the culture, their dreams, delusions, and sometimes criminal behavior.
She is currently at work on TO THE BRIDGE, the story of Amanda Stott-Smith, who threw her two young children from a bridge in 2009.
She lives in Portland, Oregon.
Website: www.nancyrommelmann.com
Blog: http://nancyrommelmann.typepad.com
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