The Queens of Montague Street

The Queens of Montague StreetBy Nancy Rommelmann

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A memoir of growing up in Brooklyn Heights in the 1970s, by the author of The Bad Mother and Transportation and a Top 10 Longreads of 2012.

Excepted in the New York Times Magazine February 2012.

“Being a 13-year old with free time in New York City was not a hardship. We—my best friend Sarah, who’d had to leave school for financial reasons; a few other girls who, like me, would be asked to leave the following spring—rode the trains, wound up in Central Park or Washington Square, where we dropped acid and watched the sixties’ protracted death rattle.”

Links:

New York Times Magazine (excerpt)
Brooklyn Heights Blog (online review)
McBrooklyn (online review)
Unlikely Words (online review)