Eleven Stories High

<p><b>This memoir evokes a girl's coming of age in a postwar New York City planned utopian community.</b></p><p><i>Eleven Stories High</i> is a memoir of a middle-class New York childhood the perceptions of a girl growing up in a housing project that she deemed a utopia of the fifties. The story follows the process of memory rather than the conventions of chronology and explores the concept of home how a place like Stuyvesant Town-impersonal symmetrical utilitarian-shapes a childhood.</p>