num_pages: 304
description: The daughter of Polish Jewish immigrants, Kate Simon was brought up in a tenement block in the Bronx area of New York. Her vivid recollections of her childhood and adolescence are contained in Bronx Primitive and its sequel A Wider World. This is a riche and startlingly frank memoir in which Simon captures the immigrant neighborhood of her childhood in the Depression Years of the 1920's as well as the universal uncertainties and triumphs of a young girl on the threshold of womanhood.
language: English
title: Bronx Primitive: A Memoir
titlecomplete: Bronx Primitive: A Memoir
genres: Judaism, Autobiography, Memoir, Biography, Coming Of Age, New York, Biography Memoir, Jewish, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 237
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Audie Award
category: Solo Narration - Female, awardedAt: 378720000000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: General Nonfiction
publisher: Virgin Books