Life with father, the bookie
Concord novelist draws on childhood in Jewish Bronx
By Leah Burrows
Advocate Staff
In some ways, Andrew Goldstein had a pretty normal childhood. He grew up in the 1960s in a Jewish neighborhood in the Bronx. He played stickball with his friends. He helped with the family business.
But while his friends’ fathers were shoe salesmen or fish mongers, Goldstein’s was a bookie.
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