It Was Her New York: True Stories & Snapshots

Booklife Editor's Pick2024 Bronze Award, LGBT, Global Book Awards2024 Bronze Award, LGBTQ, International Book Awards2024 Gold Winner, Nonfiction, Literary Titan Book Award2024 Judge's Pick, Firebird Book Award1st Place, Outstanding Creator Award for Grief and Coping / TraumaHonorable Mention, Biography / Autobiography, London Book FestivalNext Generation Indie Book Awards-Winner, Women's LiteratureFirebird Quirky Book Awards, Books That Feel Like a Work of ArtDistinguished Favorite, LGBTQ Nonfiction, Independent Press AwardFinalist, LGBTQ and WOMEN, International Author AwardsBronze Medal, Creative Nonfiction, Independent Publishers of New EnglandTrue stories and accidental snapshots about undying love, old lesbians, dementia, mothers & daughters, and a disappearing city.In this engaging new collection of personal essays and full-color photographs, Moed tells true stories of caring for her mother Florence, a broke, Julliard-trained pianist who stumbles into dementia on the Lower East Side. This funny, poignant memoir asks questions both familiar and touching: "What happened to the neighborhood?" and "What happened to my mom?"It Was Her New York is for anyone who has ever experienced the aging of a parent, the gentrification of a neighborhood, or the unexpected discovery of stifled love and hidden sexuality. Read more