Barbara Lewine 
Across the 59th Street Bridge and Back 

Across the 59th Street Bridge and Back is the memoir of a girl who grew up in Queens, New York in the 1970’s, when children weren’t protected by seat belts, but furniture was always protected by plastic slipcovers. Like most kids of her generation, she was routinely left unattended and when she was in the company of adults, she was usually inhaling the secondhand smoke emitted from their cigarettes.