A Catskill Carnival: My Borscht Belt Life Lived, Lost and Loved

If you think you know the Borscht Belt Catskills, think again.

Dirty Dancing and Mrs. Maisel are fun but they're fiction. Bart Charlow, born a "Hotel Brat", lifts the curtains on a rollicking era that they missed.

Most books focus on the glamour of the era. A Catskill Carnival takes you behind the scenes, where life was tough, turbulent, and alternately warm and hard. This is the real Borscht Belt, told by a 3rd generation insider with no illusions.

"We were carnies - carnival people - only w...