Welcome To Shirley

The author's memoir of growing up in working-class Long Island describes her youth in a town known as a service town for... (more)

The author's memoir of growing up in working-class Long Island describes her youth in a town known as a service town for the glamorous Hamptons, a place plagued by such disasters as a UFO, a childhood cancer cluster, and the nearby Brookhaven nuclear laboratory, which leaked nuclear and chemical waste into the aquifer from which town residents got their water. (less)