One Way to Whitefish

ONE WAY TO WHITEFISH is a mid-century Manhattan coming-of-age story set in the immigrant neighborhood of Yorkville on the upper East Side. Don is a typical American kid. He likes liverwurst and onion sandwiches, exploring Central Park with his best friend Allison, watching people on the Third Avenue El go by his apartment, and drawing with his favorite pencils. His mother Velma runs a bar in the neighborhood, where the regulars sometimes pay too much for their Rheingolds and say, "for the h...