River: A Memoir details how author Leslie Day’s life changed when, in 1975, she moved to a tiny houseboat on the Hudson River at the 79th Street Boat Basin—a new home umbilically tied to Manhattan’s Upper West Side. She fell in love with, and married, her neighbor, a biology professor at Brooklyn College; became a naturalist, educator, and author; and raised her son on the boat. In River, the histories and people of the Hudson flow along with the tides and currents of Day’s life, inviting readers into the intimate and connective stories of this singular floating community. A unique look at life on the Hudson and of the Hudson, River is a love letter to New York City, its famous waterway, and the environment around us.
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