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Life in East Harlem, a Community Colored By Both Promise and Peril

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Life in East Harlem, a Community Colored By Both Promise and Peril

Flying Over 96th Street: Memoir of an East Harlem White Boy

By Thomas L. Webber (Scribner, $24)

While Thomas Webber's memoir contains no shortage of fond remembrances about the neighborhood where he grew up, it is more than just a sentimental lament for the dearly departed "good old days." Because its author is both vigilant and loving in his assessment of his longtime stomping ground, Flying Over 96th Street never attempts to replace reality with romance. In addition to telling the story of an unusual childhood, Webber presents a resolutely clear-eyed portrait of a community long entrenched in a struggle against a ...

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