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    <body><![CDATA[A wonderfully written memoir! Mary-Ann Tirone Smith writes about her childhood growing up in Hartford, CT in the 1950s.  She reminisces about her family, the neighborhood and living in a simpler time. This book also covers the horrific murder of a young girl in the neighborhood during this time and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61737050">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed reading this book until about the last fourth of it. I could really do without the section I like to call Why I Wrote This Book. Seriously, I didn't need to know that crap and it seemed to cheapen the book for me. Oh well, still a pleasant enough read.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An amazing memoir interspersed with a portrait of a serial killer; gripping story. Interesting portrayal of working-class Hartford in the 1950's; also of treatment of autistic children at that time (the author's brother was high-functioning autistic).]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Having gone to college in Hartford, this memoir was really interesting and provided a good sense of recent history of the city. I found it very interesting how she told her own story and that of a predator making his way to the city in parallel.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love the memoir genre.  This has references to Hartford, CT in the 50's when I was growing up.  IT alternates between the author's live at the time and the life of a nearby predator/murderer in the childhood neighborhood.  I love this book.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Met this lady at a NEBA conference(oh back in the day when I dreamed of owning my own Book Store) She was really cool and gave me an autographed copy because I was from Connecticut(I'm sure she autographed a  tn of books but iut was still cool)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Part memoir, part true-crime. Overall, a very sobering story. Mainly an account of how a suburban, working-class community in 1950's Connecticut loses it's innocence. There is an interesting parallel drawn between the author's autistic brother and the serial killer who murders a neighborhood child, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16979478">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Unsentimental account of growing up in the 50's in Hartford CT.  Throw in an indifferent mother, a murder and an autisticbrother, and this makes for a highly readable coming-of-age memoir juxtaposed with a true crime story.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love a good memoir and this one was terrific. I loved the way chapters alternated between Smith's childhood perspective, Serial killer Bob and Smith's shy friend Irene.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Really moving story of the author growing up in Hartford, CT in the 1950's with her autistic brother and family with Italian and French Canadian roots.  A truly disturbing horrific event changes everything and years later she explores its affect on her since she never was allowed closure or even an ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7576273">more...</a>]]></body>
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