Broadway Baby Author:Alan Shapiro As a little girl growing up in Boston, Miriam Bluestein fantasized about a life lived on stage, specifically in a musical. Get married, have a family?sure, maybe she?d do those things, too, but first and foremost there was her career. As a woman, she is both tormented and consoled by those dreams in her day-to-day existence with her family, incl... more »uding a short-tempered husband, a cranky mother, and three demanding children, one of whom, Ethan, shows real talent for the stage.
Broadway Baby marks the fiction debut of a nationally acclaimed awardwinning memoirist and poet, ?an acute observer of moments, people, art and language [who] packs even seemingly simple stories with many layers of meaning? (Publishers Weekly, starred review).« less