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hostalover

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14. The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer

Reply to hermetic (Original post)

Mon Dec 3, 2018, 02:34 PM

Dec 2018

This is a memoir that I never thought I would read, let alone finish--434 pages, small print. However, not too many pages in I was thoroughly hooked. It is a first person account of a young boy, basically fatherless, who grows close to and counts on many of the characters he encounters in The Bar in Manhasset, NY, in the 80's and 90's. His mother is phenomenal, sacrificing so that her son can prosper.

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What Fiction are you reading this week, December 2, 2018? [View all] hermetic Dec 2018 OP

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Well, hermetic Dec 2018 #10

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Me too hermetic Dec 2018 #27

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Yeah, hermetic Dec 2018 #26

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I grabbed that on a one day special on BookBub. yellowdogintexas Dec 2018 #32

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This sounds lovely hermetic Dec 2018 #24

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