The TRAX series tells a love story. Volumes one through three are set in the boroughs of New York, 1968-72. She was a skinny wisp of a girl, and he was a graduate student at NYU. They drove a Mustang, a Chevy pickup truck, owned two big dogs, and rented a studio in Alphabet City. He was a diamond courier after classes and she worked at the bank. The charm of the book is the events they each recall, and the way the details are remembered-after forty years.
Friday, July 15, 2011
The Real Skinny: "A bit of heaven in Queens"
The real skinny (according to Girl): Oh my gosh—Mike was right. It really was "Bob’s Diner." I now remember the name certainly did not seem to go with a eatery. Bob was more like a name for a longshoreman or a firefighter, not an owner of a diner. The rest of the comparison was fairly accurate, but I remember pie more than sandwiches—heated apple pie, with vanilla ice cream. A bit of heaven in Queens.
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