Sleeping Arrangements

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Sleeping Arrangements

Harper Lee: â€œA beautiful story I shall cherish for years to come.â€ Critics raved:"A model memoir, funny and sad.." Michiko Kakutani, the New York Times.

Laura Shaine Cunninghamâ€™s memoir of being orphaned at age eight and raised by two bachelor uncles in the Bronx- â€œIn the glow of Yankee Stadium Twi-Night doubleheadersâ€, has become one of the most beloved classics of contemporary autobiographical literature. Anne Tyler wrote:â€œReads like a novelâ€¦You may find yourself sitting very quietly, mulling over the marvels of this truly wonderful book.â€ - The Baltimore Sun

When her single mother dies, her bachelor Uncles Len and Gabe step in- a wildly divergent pair- Uncle Len is a self-styled cross between Sam Spade and Abe Lincoln, who travels on â€œsecret missionsâ€, carrying only a manila envelope- while Uncle Gabe composes and belts out Jewish Gospel songs and proposes to every woman he meetsâ€¦ Len makes popcorn for breakfast and Gabe warps the wooden floor with bleach. Their lives taken on a similar odd angle- and then they are joined by the grandmother, Etka from Minsk who carries her own memoir â€œPhilosophy for Womenâ€ and begins most sentences with â€œPlato and I believeâ€¦â€ To top it off, they get a cocker spaniel puppy who â€œisnâ€™t a dog but a democrat.â€

Excerpted in The New Yorker, presented at Selected Shorts, read by Linda Lavin, the book, published first by Alfred Knopf and then by Plume and Riverhead Books (Penguin Putnam), the book soon became a bestseller in the U.S. and was featured in The New York Times magazine, which ran several excerpts, including the popular Uncle Food, Bachelor Uncles, and a Hers column on being raised by men. Her column devoted to her single mother appeared in The New York Observer.

Laura may have been raised by two eccentric men who knew nothing about running a household but they knew how to love. Her family story is interwoven with her adventures with her little girl friends as they played forbidden games in the â€œBabylonian Bronx.

Jessica Mitford: â€œAbsolutely delightfulâ€¦a terrific treat!â€

Muriel Spark: â€œA great pleasureâ€¦very interesting, moving and amusing.â€

Chaim Potok: â€œWise, sobering and witty.â€

â€œCompassion and wit are a rare literary combination but Sleeping Arrangements is illuminated by bothâ€ - Los Angeles Times

â€œCunningham transforms her â€œBronx of the emotionsâ€ into the â€˜Babylonian Bronxâ€™, a world simmering with sex and death and intrigueâ€¦Sharp- witted and funny but never mean â€¦"- Julie Salamon The Wall Street Journal.

â€œComic, touching, delightfulâ€¦the kind of book you buy multiple copies of to send to your mother and best friendsâ€¦"- People

Country	USA
Author	Laura Shaine Cunningham
Binding	Kindle Edition
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
Label	Memoir House
Manufacturer	Memoir House
NumberOfPages	177
PublicationDate	2016-01-18
Publisher	Memoir House
ReleaseDate	2016-01-18
Studio	Memoir House

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