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Brooklyn Story

Fifteen-year-old Samantha Bonti has just about nothing going for her. Half-Italian and half-Jewish in a Brooklyn neighborhood that is almost exclusively Italian and wary of those not, Samantha lives with her drug- and alchohol-addict mother Joan on w...

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Hardcover: 336 pages
Publisher: Gallery Books; First Edition edition (December 28, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1439190224
ISBN-13: 978-1439190227
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 1 x 8.4 inches
Amazon Rank: 1777467
Format: PDF ePub djvu book

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To me, some people lived in the real world and others lived Brooklyn. . . .It’s the summer of 1978, and Samantha Bonti is fifteen years old, half Jewish and half Italian, and hesitantly edging toward pure Brooklyn, even if her dreams of something more are bigger than the neighborhood girls’ teased hair. She lives in Bensonhurst with her mother, Joan, a woman abandoned and scarred in a ruinous marriage, poisoned with cynicism, and shackled by addi...

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