About the book
The Greenwich Village of the 1970s, where she grew up in a bohemian family, is the subject of Tamara Shopsin's illustrated memoir. At its center is Shopsin's, the family's greasy spoon known as The Store, run by her father Kenny, a talkative, contrary and big-hearted man who also serves as the Village's sheriff, philosopher and fixer. Customers come for the egg salad on rye and the chili con carne and stay for Kenny's tall tales and advice. The narrative is elliptical and filled with illustrations, photographs and graphics. It portrays the Village as a close small town inside the big city, long before the tours and luxury condos, and makes a case for the unconventional life as a fading art.
Austin Kleon named it his favorite book cover of the year and said its chunked sections and hand-drawn illustrations gave him the same quick joy he gets from reading Vonnegut.
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Austin Kleon (Writer, artist)
Certainly my favorite book cover of the year, the graphic designer’s memoir drops you right into a kid’s eye view of 1970s Greenwich Village. With it’s chunked sections and hand-drawn illustrations, it gave me the same kind of quick, skippy joy I get when reading Vonnegut.
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