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Lower East Side Tenement Reclamation Association

David Rothman

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English
Miscellaneous
07 November 2020
This magical realist tale follows the travails of a burnt-out teacher from Queens who spends his time obsessing over the fact that he has been cheated out of living in his Grandma Rose’s Lower East Side apartment and is thus priced out of his “More Recent Ancestral Home” of Manhattan.

In The Lower East Side Tenement Reclamation Association, David Rothman weaves a rich story about real estate, family, and memory. Daniel, the protagonist, is haunted by the memories of his childhood experiences in his grandmother’s apartment, a home that he desperately wants to inhabit. One day he discovers a hidden relic on Rivington Street: a tenement reclamation office run by an eccentric centurion named Hannah. When Daniel inquires about the chances of reclaiming his grandmother’s old tenement, Hannah is not impressed. “Things don’t work like that, you rude, young schlub!” And so begins Daniel’s journey to take back his past and to secure an affordable space for his family in downtown Manhattan. This is a journey full of twists and turns, ups and downs, and an ending that would make even the most thick-skinned New York real estate agent shake.

The Lower East Side Tenement Reclamation Association is the winner of the Omnidawn Fabulist Fiction Novelette Prize, selected by Meg Ellison. 

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Imprint:   Miscellaneous
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 179mm,  Width: 141mm,  Spine: 5mm
Weight:   84g
ISBN:   9781632430878
ISBN 10:   1632430878
Pages:   80
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

David Rothman teaches writing for the City University of New York, and he has had short stories published Glimmer Train, Hybrido, the Piltdown Review, and Newtown Literary, among others. He is the drummer for the NYC-based band, The Edukators, and is a proud resident of Jackson Heights, Queens (and has little or no interest in reclaiming his actual grandparents' tenement on the Lower East Side).

Reviews for Lower East Side Tenement Reclamation Association

The Lower East Side Tenement Reclamation Association is a brilliantly-written work of magical fiction in which both contemporary New York and the Jewish immigrant experience come alive. I loved Daniel, who wants a Manhattan apartment in the most desperate way, his sensible wife Julie, and their wise little girl, Hannah. The book is both moving and comic. -- Phyllis Smith, author of I am Livia Rothman's novel lands readers in a magical New York City, where portals and keys lead to wondrous places. But moreover, it's a story that profoundly explores the weight of loss, the complexities of family, and the power of nostalgia. -- Noah Lederman, author of A World Erased


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