{"product_id":"kitchen-privileges-a-memoir-paperback","title":"Kitchen Privileges: A Memoir - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMary Higgins Clark\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAngela's Ashes\u003c\/i\u003e comes home to the Bronx in a brilliant, touching, charming, and bittersweet account of a childhood during the Depression from America's Queen of Suspense.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMary Higgins Clark's memoir begins with the death of her father in 1939. With no money in the house--the Higgins Bar and Grill in the Bronx is failing and in debt, and worry about it is one of the things that has killed her father--Mary's indomitable Irish mother (she devotes a chapter to her \"Wild Irish Mother\") puts a classified ad in the Bronx Home News: \"Furnished rooms! Kitchen Privileges!\" Very shortly there arrives the first in a succession of tenants who will change the lives of the Higgins family and set the young Mary on her start as a writer, while bringing to them all a dose of the Christmas spirit that seemed to have vanished with Mr. Higgins's death. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFull of hope, faith, memorable characters, and warmth, \u003ci\u003eKitchen Privileges\u003c\/i\u003e brings back into sharp, nostalgic focus the feeling of growing up poor, but determined to survive, in a vanished Bronx that was one of white lace curtains instead of a slum, and at a time when everybody was poor and either needed or offered a helping hand.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author Mary Higgins Clark wrote forty suspense novels, four collections of short stories, a his­torical novel, a memoir, and two children's books. With bestselling author Alafair Burke she wrote the Under Suspicion series including \u003ci\u003eThe Cinderella Murder\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAll Dressed in White\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Sleeping Beauty Killer\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEvery Breath You Take\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eYou Don't Own Me\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePiece of My Heart\u003c\/i\u003e. With her daughter Carol Higgins Clark, she coauthored five suspense novels. More than one hundred million copies of her books are in print in the United States alone. Her books are international bestsellers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.1 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 21, 2003\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Agatha Awards (2002)\u003c\/div\u003e\n                ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47405504823517,"sku":"9780743412612","price":17.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/ODdIOWppUDFONlVUMzdNSGVZRVRnZz09.webp?v=1771121518","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/kitchen-privileges-a-memoir-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}