Hot Tea and Sponge Cake at 10:00 P.M.
Paul Wellstone
2001
My mother and father were an embarrassment to me, up until high school. They were much older than my friends’ parents (my dad was forty- seven and my mother was forty- four when I was born), and they were from a different background, too. My mother, Minnie, was born on the Lower East Side of New York City, the daughter of Jewish immigrants from…
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