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Utican Lore Like You've Never Seen Before
At only twenty-three years old, Meaghan Curley has published her first book with Cosmic Teapot Publishing. Her novel, Girl: Repurposed, is poised to set the fiction world on fire. Melding her youthful vision with a deep understanding of classical literature, Curley is sure to become one of America’s great humorists. Her voice, a voice for the millennial generation, will resonate with anyone that has concerns for the state of America – and she does it in the most profound ways.
Where did you grow up?
I was born and grew up in Utica, NY. Hopefully I will die there too.
What was it like growing up there?
Due to the economic decline of the 80s and 90s, the city was a very poor, depressed place. A lot of people left. One of my most vivid memories of the city were the burned down and abandoned homes that all over the place. If your family didn't leave the city back then, it meant tha
t you were one of three things: poor, impacted by drugs (we had and still have a major drug problem in Utica) or you were newly arrived immigrants/refugees also trying to make it. My family was the first two. I’m convinced that's why we never moved. Although, to be fair, I love my city and I'm glad I got to grow up in a unique, diverse, crazy, stereotypical NY town.
Read more at: http://www.cosmicteapot.net/press-rel...
Where did you grow up?
I was born and grew up in Utica, NY. Hopefully I will die there too.
What was it like growing up there?
Due to the economic decline of the 80s and 90s, the city was a very poor, depressed place. A lot of people left. One of my most vivid memories of the city were the burned down and abandoned homes that all over the place. If your family didn't leave the city back then, it meant tha
t you were one of three things: poor, impacted by drugs (we had and still have a major drug problem in Utica) or you were newly arrived immigrants/refugees also trying to make it. My family was the first two. I’m convinced that's why we never moved. Although, to be fair, I love my city and I'm glad I got to grow up in a unique, diverse, crazy, stereotypical NY town.
Read more at: http://www.cosmicteapot.net/press-rel...
