It Was Her New York

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(29 29 29 1)>Booklife Editor's Pick</strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(29 29 29 1)>2024 Bronze Award LGBT Global Book Awards</strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(29 29 29 1)>2024 Bronze Award LGBTQ International Book Awards</strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(29 29 29 1)>2024 Gold Winner Nonfiction Literary Titan Book Award</strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(29 29 29 1)>2024 Judge's Pick Firebird Book Award</strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(29 29 29 1)>1st Place Outstanding Creator Award for Grief and Coping / Trauma</strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(29 29 29 1)>Honorable Mention Biography / Autobiography London Book Festival</strong></p><p><br></p><p>True stories and accidental snapshots about undying love old lesbians dementia mothers & daughters and a disappearing city.</p><p><br></p><p>In this engaging new collection of personal essays and full-color photographs Moed tells true stories of caring for her mother Florence a broke Julliard-trained pianist who stumbles into dementia on the Lower East Side. This funny poignant memoir asks questions both familiar and touching: What happened to the neighborhood? and What happened to my mom?</p><p><br></p><p><em>It Was Her New York</em> is for anyone who has ever experienced the aging of a parent the gentrification of a neighborhood or the unexpected discovery of stifled love and hidden sexuality.</p>