IT WAS HER NEW YORK asks questions, both familiar and touching:
What the $%@! happened to my city
and
what the $%@! happened to my mom?!
Florence, a pissed-off hurricane of an unwealthy lesbian and Juilliard-trained pianist, stumbles into dementia, fighting all the way, as her youngest daughter juggles chainsaws to hold off the inevitable.
Through a mosaic of intimate photo-illustrated vignettes, these two women and their fellow New Yorkers weave through an urban maze of emergency rooms, battered old parks, taxi rides, and office cubicles with the indomitable moxie of those who claim that city as their own.
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“The topics of growing old, love in the LGBTQ+ community, and the romance of the ever changing city of New York are hugely important to me, and I chose to showcase these topics in a combination that feels like a graphic memoir married with a novel,” said author C.O. Moed. “I hope this rare fusion will bring visibility not only to underrepresented communities—the elderly and, more specifically, queer elderly women—but will also highlight the men and women who keep our cities running. "
For more information, please contact Samantha Kolber at Rootstock Publishing
For readings, please contact C.O. Moed directly.
photo: Joni Wong