Manhattan Memoir

The <b>New York Times</b> said that <b>Mary Cantwell</b> in telling the story of her life Makes you discover yourself. Now gathered in a single volume are her three beautifully etched unflinchingly honest memoirs. Cantwell's first book <b>American Girl</b> evoked the delights of her youth in a small New England town; her second <b>Manhattan When I Was Young</b> told of her blossoming career in New York her marriage and her children and that marriage's decline. <b>Speaking with Strangers</b> finds Cantwell alone a single mother struggling in the big city bereft of her husband but bolstered by friends thriving in her career yet personally troubled. With a sensibility as distinct as the city she calls home Cantwell's autobiographical trilogy brilliantly captures her struggle to forge a life with one foot in her past and the other warily in her present.