Saint Mazie by Jami Attenberg
Set in Depression-era Brooklyn, the novel follows Mazie, a brassy, resourceful woman who survives through charm, small hustles and ad hoc businesses while quietly devoting herself to helping the city’s vulnerable. Told by a young journalist who becomes fascinated after Mazie’s death, the narrative pieces together a life of contradictions — a onetime chorus girl and neighborhood fixer who moves easily between self-preservation and astonishing generosity — painting an affectionate, morally ambiguous portrait of a woman whose acts of care and streetwise entrepreneurship made her a local legend and a kind of secular saint.
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- Published
- 2015
- Nationality
- American
- Length
- Very Short
- Pages
- 144-160 pages
- Original Language
- English
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