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Sleeping Arrangements

by Laura Shaine Cunningham · 1989

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A moving, funny memoir of a wildly unorthodox Bronx childhood in the 1950's—the story of a girl who starts out fatherless, is orphaned at 8, is raised by two extremely odd strangers who happen to be her uncles, and slowly accumulates for herself a strong and—no matter how eccentric—deeply loving family.

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20th century20th centuryMore like thisLess of thisNew YorkNew YorkMore like thisLess of this
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adult

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