num_pages: 192
description: "As an account of growing up female, it is a fit companion piece to Mary McCarthy's classic Memoirs of a Catholic Girlhood ."—Le Anne Schreiber, The New York Times .
language: English
title: Bronx Primitive: Portraits in a Childhood
titlecomplete: Bronx Primitive: Portraits in a Childhood
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: Penguin Books