the book : saint mazie by jami attenberg
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“Set during the depression in New York’s Lower East Side, Saint Mazie is the story of a party girl who transforms into a community fixture. She cares for the homeless and treats them with dignity and respect. Maureen
Stetina Marie rejects society’s expectations but, when the depression hits, she rejects her party girl life in order to care for less fortunate New Yorkers.
Pam Smith Saint Mazie is a brash, full-on woman who is afraid of nothing and no one. She takes life in the early 20th-century New York Bowery with all the guts and gusto of a champion survivor, dragging all she meets along with her as best she can. Saviour, sinner, soulmate, shocker, she should be the main character in a hit Broadway show any day now! Leslie
Aitcheson This book is about Mazie PhillipsGordon, a woman who lived in New York during the Depression. Her diary passages slowly lead up to the point in her life that she is known for. Mazie was known for helping out the homeless men in New York as much as
she could. Victoria
Fisher Mazie’s diary reveals her goodness has trapped her in a New York ticket booth finding love caring for her family, friends, and the forlorn. Sylvia M Girouard
Wild for her time, she sits in a cage, observing the world around her and looking for a chance to be good. She finds it and becomes Queen of the Bowery. Susan
Gottman Mazie is a force to be reckoned with. Her diary entries reveal secrets from her past that have turned her into the woman she becomes — Saint Mazie. Jess Landry Historical fiction told primarily first person from diary entries, but interspaced with other characters’ reflections. Elizabeth LaBoone Join Mazie, broken and big-hearted, on a remarkable journey spanning the first half of the 20th century as she makes it her business to look out for the downtrodden of N.Y.C.
Bonnie Goldberg A big, big, life story told from many points of view.
Tammy Wright Mazie’s life in early 1900s N.Y. City fills you with admiration and sympathy as she tackles love, destiny, duty & service with gutsy courage! AnneMarie Doherty