Yorkville Twins is more than a memoir. It’s an experience! Full of humor, wisdom, and frank talk, this book will help you:
- Rediscover childhood memories.
- Live the immigrant experience.
- Gain an understanding of the historical, social, and cultural perspective of the past.
- Appreciate how the immigrant experience has enabled our nation to grow.
- Understand what it is to be an American.
- Live the American dream.
- Understand those magical bonds shared by twins with clairvoyant experiences.
- Learn about the colorful ethnic neighborhood of Yorkville, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, during the 1940s, 50s, and 60s.
- Be transported back in time, through 100+ vintage photographs, making you feel you are right there with the twins sharing those adventures.
- Be entertained, inspired, informed, energized and engaged.
- Enjoy hundreds of anecdotes from hilarious to tragic.
- Further explore this place and era by using richly annotated resources.
- Enhance/extend your reading with FREE downloadable monographs.
- Download an updated digital copy of “Appendix C” live to your computer, quickly and accurately (see Monographs).
- Comprehend the language of the times with our multilingual glossary.
- Further your knowledge through use of selected references.
- Gain additional insight through two extra bonus chapters (Twins, “It’s a Twin Thing,” and our Undergraduate Work, “Ya Sure, You Betcha!”).