Boogaloo on 2nd Avenue: A Novel of Pastry, Guilt and Music
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Description
It’s the boom years of the 1980s, and life is closing in on Nathan Seltzer, who rarely travels beyond his suddenly gentrifying Lower East Side neighborhood in New York City. Between paralyzing bouts of claustrophobia, Nathan wonders whether he should cheat on his wife with Karoline, a German pastry maker whose parents may or may not have been Nazis. His father, Harry, is plotting with the 1960s boogaloo star Chow Mein Vega for the comeback of this dance craze. Meanwhile, a homicidal drug addict is terrorizing the neighborhood.
Publication Date
2005
Publisher
Ballantine Books
City
New York
State
NY
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities | Creative Writing | Fiction | History
Repository Citation
Kurlansky , M. (2005). Boogaloo on 2nd Avenue: A Novel of Pastry, Guilt and Music. New York, NY: Ballantine Books.
