Cover of Lillian Boxfish takes a walk

Book 2017

Lillian Boxfish takes a walk

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Language
English
Published
2017
  • Fiction
  • Interpersonal relations
  • Older women
  • City and town life
  • Reminiscing
  • Fiction, urban
  • Fiction, historical
  • New york (n.y.), fiction

"A love letter to city life in all its guts and grandeur, Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk... paints a portrait of a remarkable woman across the canvas of a changing America: from the Jazz Age to the onset of the AIDS epidemic; the Great Depression to the birth of hip-hop. Lillian figures she might as well take her time. For now, after all, the night is still young"--