Eleven Stories High : Growing Up in Stuyvesant Town, 1948-1968

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Eleven Stories High is a memoir of a middle class childhood, the perceptions of a girl growing up in a New York City housing project that the author 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, utilitarian--shapes a childhood.... More >>

Eleven Stories High : Growing Up in Stuyvesant Town, 1948-1968