82 Remsen Street : Coming of Age in Brooklyn Heigh

82 Remsen Street is America's own colorful version of Britain's Downton Abbey and Upstairs Downstairs peopled with Wall Street lawyers, Irish housemaids, Chinese laundrymen, and Polish clock-winders. Outwater gives readers a wondrous look into a 1930s and '40s childhood in Brooklyn Heights. The sentient voice of a young girl immerses readers in a time and place where wealth and poverty simmer in the same pot. Outwater's generation was sandwiched between two world wars, navigated a tidal wave of European immigration, and were caught in the wake of the stock market's devastating rise and fall. An absorbing memoir for history lovers on both sides of the Atlantic.