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Kitchen Privileges: A Memoir

Kitchen Privileges: A Memoir

Clark, Mary Higgins

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Publisher Price: $16.00

ISBN10: 0743412613
ISBN13: 9780743412612
Publisher: Gallery Books
Published: Oct 21 2003
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
Awards: Agatha Awards
Angela's Ashes comes home to the Bronx in Mary Higgins Clark's brilliant, touching, charming, and bittersweet memoir of a childhood during the Depression. Mary Higgins Clark's memoir begins with the death of her father in 1939. With no money in the house--the Higgins Bar and Grill in the Bronx is failing and in debt, and worry about it is one of the things that has killed her father--Mary's indomitable Irish mother (she devotes a chapter to her Wild Irish Mother) puts out a classified ad: Furnished rooms! Kitchen Privileges! Very shortly there arrives the first in a succession of tenants who will change the lives of the Higgins family and set the young Mary on her start as a writer, while bringing to them all a dose of the Christmas spirit that seemed to have vanished with Mr. Higgins's death. Full of hope, faith, memorable characters, and warmth, Kitchen Privileges brings back into sharp, nostalgic focus the feeling of growing up poor, but determined to survive, in a vanished Bronx that was one of white lace curtains instead of a slum, and at a time when everybody was poor and either needed or offered a helping hand.

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