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Fifth-generation New Yorker, third-generation bartender, and first-generation creator Tara Clancy was raised in three wildly divergent homes: a turned motorboat shed in working-class Queens; a geriatric commune of feisty, Brooklyn-born Italians; and a sprawling Hamptons property she visited almost every other weekend. This child years triptych comes to life in The Clancys of Queens, an electric, one-of-a-kind memoir. From scheming and playing with her force-of-nature grandmother to brawling with 11-year-old girls on the concrete recess fight yard of MS 172 to hours lounging on Adirondack recliners beside an immaculate croquet garden to holding court beside Joey O'Dirt, Goiter Eddy, and Roger the Dodger at her Dad's local pub, Tara leapfrogs across these assorted spheres, delivering reviews from each world with originality, grit, and outrageous laughter. But The Clancys of Queens is not only an real coming-of-age tale or a rowdy barstool biography. Chock-full of heroes who escape the favorite imaginings of the city, it includes a bold family portrait of real people, people whose reviews are basically absent from our cabinets. Most crucially, it captures - in inimitable prose - the seldom read voices of New York's working-class women. Using a light touch but a difficult hit, The Clancys of Queens blends savvy and wit to adopt us with an unforgettable strata-hopping experience.
