<p><b>NOW A NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER</b><br><br> <b>A love letter to city life in all its guts and grandeur, <i>Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk</i> by Kathleen Rooney paints a portrait of a remarkable woman across the canvas of a changing America: from the Jazz Age to the onset of the AIDS epidemic; the Great Depression to the birth of hip-hop.</b><br><br> <i>“In my reckless and undiscouraged youth,” </i>Lillian Boxfish writes,<i> “I worked in a walnut-paneled office thirteen floors above West Thirty-Fifth Street…”</i><br><br> She took 1930s New York by storm, working her way up writing copy for R.H. Macy’s to become the highest paid advertising woman in the country. It was a job that, she says, “in some ways saved my life, and in other ways ruined it.”<br><br> Now it’s the last night of 1984 and Lillian, 85 years old but just as sharp and savvy as ever, is on her way to a party. It’s chilly enough out for her mink coat and Manhattan is grittier now—her son keeps warning her about a subway vigilante on the prowl—but the quick-tongued poetess has never been one to scare easily. On a walk that takes her over 10 miles around the city, she meets bartenders, bodega clerks, security guards, criminals, children, parents, and parents-to-be, while reviewing a life of excitement and adversity, passion and heartbreak, illuminating all the ways New York has changed—and has not.<br><br> Lillian figures she might as well take her time. For now, after all, the night is still young.<br><br>“Transporting…witty, poignant and sparkling.”<br> —<i>People </i>(People Picks Book of the Week)</p> Read Less