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Name of Book: Upper West Side Story Author: Susan Pashman ISBN: 978-1-941861-03-5 Publisher: Harvard Square Press Type of book: Race issues, New York, family, friendship, interracial friendship, murder, politics, politicians, tragedy, suing, legality, juvenile hall Year it was published: 2015 Summary: Upper West Side Story is a tale of friendships between people of different races. The narrator, Bettina Grosjean, is a professor of Women’s History, and her husband, a high-ranking environmental policymaker in the New York City mayor’s office. Once a pair of student radicals, they are now raising their two brainy children on New York’s Upper West Side. Their fierce parental love is tested in a startling eruption of racial hostility and political chicanery within the very community they have long loved and helped to build. Their world is suddenly thrown into crisis by a shocking and tragic event: During a school field trip, their son Max and his best friend, Cyrus, ...