Bronx Primitive: Portraits in a Childhood

Kate Simon

1982

[…] We knew Dr. James had visited when we found our mothers in bed “resting,” an odd word, an odd event. When we left for school, they had no symptoms of cold or cough or pain; preoccupied perhaps, but that was common among women who worried about getting the rent paid on time, about shoes for the children, about husbands who habitually came home…

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Kate Simon

1912–1990

Born in Poland, Kate Simon grew up in New York City. She wrote several memoirs and was a prolific author of travel guides. In 1982 the National Book Critics Circle named Simon’s autobiographical Bronx Primitive among the most distinguished books of the year.

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