YONKERS Yonkers!: A story of race and redemption

YONKERS Yonkers Is a coming-of-age story of race and redemption. Cookie Colangelo is an unlikely heroine. Being a good girl has gotten Cookie nowhere, so she's become a small-time drug dealer, a troublemaker, and an indomitable force to reckon with, one who will take no prisoners as she cuts a mighty swath through the city of Yonkers. Cookie is going down the wrong path until shy black boy Herman Lynch comes into her life. Everywhere Cookie goes, she keeps bumping into Herman. Down The End, on the wall at Untermyer Park, in Getty Square and at the Yonkers Carnegie Library. Born with a harelip, Herman Lynch is a black B-boy, a natural dancer, who has had no formal dance training. He lives near Slow Bomb, the Schlobohm Housing Projects. The other black boys don't like Herman and think he's not black enough. The Italian girls of Yonkers don't like Cookie, saying she's too white. Together, Cookie and Herman explore the heart of racial prejudice in working-class Yonkers circa 1969-71. Rich with history and exacting detail: the Vietnam War has divided the country, Richard Nixon is in the White House and activists are marching in the streets. The story of Cookie Colangelo and Herman Lynch is told against the backdrop of the music of the times from Woodstock to the deaths of Blind Owl Alan Wilson, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison.

Author: Vaccarino Patricia
Publisher: Modus Operandi Books
Published: 03/15/2018
Pages: 458
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.25w x 1.02d
ISBN: 9780996349413

About the Author
Patricia, Vaccarino: - Patricia Vaccarino is originally from Yonkers, New York. After college, she traveled across the country in a battered Chevy Impala on I-40 and up the California coast on Pacific Highway 101 to "see America" and landed in Seattle, where she worked as a paralegal in antitrust law, and later went to law school. She began writing professionally--articles, copy, scripts, and press releases and was asked by a film production company, Kaye Smith Productions (founded by Seattle businessman Lester Smith and Hollywood celebrity Danny Kaye), to do their Public Relations outreach-that was her start in P.R. Patricia Vaccarino owns Xanthus Communications, a national P.R. firm, and the media company, PR for People(R), where people share their news with the world. Patricia Vaccarino has written award-winning film scripts, press materials, content, books, essays and articles.

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