Memoirs/fiction that reads like a memoir that take place in NYC?
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Anonymous
This is a wonderful book! |
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“Fleishman is in Touble” and “Sex In the City.”
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Anonymous
| I’ll add Brooklyn by Colm Toibin. And +1 to Rules of Civility and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
Anonymous
| Goldfinch! |
Anonymous
| Let the Great World Spin is not a memoir but is set in NYC and includes Petit's tightrope walk between the Twin Towers. |
Anonymous
| Between Two Kingdoms. A memoir not set entirely in NYC but maybe enough? |
Anonymous
| Call It Sleep by Henry Roth |
Anonymous
| Indiscretion by Charles Dubow, if you are OK with East Hampton and Paris also as major settings. |
Anonymous
It takes place all over the place--Las Vegas, Amsterdam. I didn't think it was a very good book, either, but opinions obviously differ. |
Anonymous
| Rules of Civility is FANTASTIC! |
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Time and Again by Jack Finney - I read and re-read and re-read this novel as a teenager
Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser - still considered by many the greatest American urban novel, takes place in Chicago and NYC |
Anonymous
| OMG I forgot about Time and Again. I ADORED that book!!!!! |
Anonymous
| M Train by Patti Smith |
Anonymous
| Have you read New York by Edward Rutherfurd? It's quite good and spans several generations. |
Anonymous
| Not memoir like, but in Book Lovers by Emily Henry the main character is deeply in love with NYC. The audiobook is well done. I hate the place but now have a new appreciation for the parts of it that are magical to its fans. |