num_pages: 207
description: Eleven Stories High is a memoir of a middle-class New York childhood, the perceptions of a girl growing up in a housing project that she deemed a "utopia of the fifties." The story follows the process of memory, rather than the conventions of chronology, and explores the concept of "home," how a place like Stuyvesant Town--impersonal, symmetrical, utilitarian--shapes a childhood.
language: English
title: Eleven Stories High: Growing Up in Stuyvesant Town, 1948-1968
titlecomplete: Eleven Stories High: Growing Up in Stuyvesant Town, 1948-1968
genres: Memoir, New York, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 28
publisher: State University of New York Press