Eleven Stories High

Eleven Stories HighThis memoir evokes a girl's coming of age in a postwar New York City planned, "utopian" community. Eleven Stories High is a memoir of a middle class New York childhood, the perceptions of a girl growing up in a housing project that she deemed a "utopia of the fifties." The story follows the process of memory, rather than the conventions of chronology, and explores the concept of "home," how a place like Stuyvesant Town impersonal, symmetrical,

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