My grandmother Evelyn Melnick, née Rosenberg, born and raised in the Bronx and living in Queens from 1966 until almost the end of her life, idealized her urban landscape, which would come to be my urban landscape, New York City, which I sure love fiercely.
One of the most special parts of writing and publishing this book is that I got to make my grandmother a character. She would have LOVED being a character in a book!! (My aunt Barbara agrees!)
