About Step Lively: New York City Tales of Love and Change by Sherri Moshman-Paganos:
Jill and Alex, a young married couple, are fresh arrivals to Manhattan in the late 1970’s. Embarking on new careers and a new life together, can they resolve their conflicts and make their marriage work?
Back then the New York City subway conductors used to say “Step Lively,” when you got off the train. “Step lively” is also the couple’s need to adjust to their new life in the big city. The 14 tales of this memoir are told through different voices while Jill and Alex interact with various characters, such as a talking parakeet, Jill’s grandmothers and a born again elevator man, as well as Jill’s bicycle, which even has its own voice in the memoir.
If you like nostalgia and reading about the ebb and flow of love, and Manhattan of past years, then you’ll enjoy Step Lively: New York City Tales of Love and Change.
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Author Bio:
A former educator, I grew up outside Washington DC and am now a happy retiree based in Athens, Greece, feeling lucky to travel with my husband, visiting our daughter in Brooklyn, our son in Madrid, and other destinations, but mostly enjoying and finding inspiration in life right where we are in Athens. I have published a book of poetry, Wanderings: Poems of Discovery and a number of essays and articles and now a monthly travel blog with the name “olivesandislands.”
Step Lively: New York City Tales of Love and Change is a look back at my years living in New York City, special years that I am lucky to carry around with me.