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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Rips, Nicolaia, author.     Subjects     Rips, Nicolaia -- Childhood and youth.     Chelsea Hotel -- Biography.     Coming of age -- New York (State) -- New York.     Girls -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.     Teenage girls -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.     Bohemianism -- New York (State) -- New York.     Eccentrics and eccentricities -- New York (State) -- New York.     New York (N.Y.) -- Biography.     New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Rips, Nicolaia, author.       by title:      Trying to float : co...         MARC Display

Trying to float : coming of age in the Chelsea Hotel / Nicolaia Rips. by Rips, Nicolaia, author. New York, NY : Scribner, 2016. Subjects Rips, Nicolaia -- Childhood and youth.   Chelsea Hotel -- Biography.   Coming of age -- New York (State) -- New York.   Girls -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.   Teenage girls -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.   Bohemianism -- New York (State) -- New York.   Eccentrics and eccentricities -- New York (State) -- New York.   New York (N.Y.) -- Biography.   New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs. ISBN:  9781501132988 (hardcover) 1501132989 (hardcover) Description:  xiv, 254 pages : illustration ; 22 cm Edition:  First Scribner hardcover edition. Contents:  Prologue -- Part One: THE FLEDGLING YEARS -- My First Trip -- Italy -- Preschool -- The Pool Party -- The Craftys -- Halloween -- My Steed -- Pippi -- Eyes -- Stormé -- But Not the Fish -- A Leg Up -- A Crush -- Artie -- My Babysitters -- The Theater -- Rebecca -- Winter Valley -- The Traitor -- My Friend Fan -- The Traitor Revealed -- Part Two: MIDDLE SCHOOL -- Friendship -- The Delicacy of Love -- Friendship and Chocolate -- Greta Returns -- Moving On -- King of the Night -- The Studio -- My Crowd -- The Schnoz -- Mom vs. Mama -- The Dance -- The Shaman -- Tic-Tac-Toke -- Summer Camp -- An Unexpected Journey -- My Interested Look -- Cinderella -- The Banana Peels of Optimism -- The Playing Fields of West Chelsea -- Mr. Crafty Moves Out -- At Last -- Author's Note. Requests:  0 Summary:  "'Hysterically droll, touching, elegant, and wise--a coming-of-age story from someone who possibly came of age before her parents' (Patricia Marx, New Yorker writer and bestselling author), Trying to Float is a seventeen-year-old's darkly funny, big-hearted memoir about growing up in New York City's legendary Chelsea Hotel. New York's Chelsea Hotel may no longer be home to its most famous denizens--Andy Warhol, Leonard Cohen, Patti Smith, to name a few--but the eccentric spirit of the Chelsea is alive and well. Meet the family Rips: father Michael, a lawyer turned writer with a penchant for fine tailoring; mother Sheila, a former model and renowned artist who matches her welding outfits with couture; and daughter Nicolaia, a precocious high school junior at work on a record of her peculiar seventeen years. Nicolaia is a perpetual outsider who has struggled to find her place in public schools populated by cliquish girls and loudmouthed boys. But at the Chelsea, Nicolaia need not look far to find her tribe. There's her neighbor Storme, a tall woman who keeps a pink handgun strapped to her ankle; her babysitter, Paris, who may or may not have a second career as an escort; her friend Artie, former proprietor of New York's most famous nightclubs. The kids at school might never understand her, but as Nicolaia endeavors to fit in she begins to understand that the Chelsea's motley crew could hold the key to surviving the perils of a Manhattan childhood. Not since Holden Caulfield has there been such a fabulously compelling teen guide to New York City: Nicolaia Rips's debut is a disarming, humble, heartfelt, and wise tale of coming-of-age amid the contradictions, complexities, and shifting identities of life in New York City. A bohemian Eloise for our times, Trying to Float is a triumphant parable for the power of embracing difference in all its forms"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 974.7 Rips Ri Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 974.7 Rips Ri Checked In Add Copy to MyList Makawao Public Library Adult Nonfiction 974.7 Rips Ri Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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