Overview

True stories and accidental snapshots about undying love, dementia, old lesbians, family, gentrification, and every New Yorker we bump into, with full-color photographs.

In this engaging new collection of personal essays and full-color photographs, Moed tells true stories of caring for her mother Florence, a broke, Julliard-trained pianist who stumbles into dementia on the Lower East Side. This funny, poignant memoir asks questions both familiar and “What happened to the neighborhood?” and “What happened to my mom?”It Was Her New York is for anyone who has ever experienced the aging of a parent, the gentrification of a neighborhood, or the unexpected discovery of stifled love and hidden sexuality.