Center for the literary arts in New York State

The NYS Writers Institute and the Historic Albany Foundation are back with a one-night only online book club event, reading The Crazy Ladies of Pearl Street by Trevanian.

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Legendary writer Trevanian brings readers his most personal novel yet: a funny, deeply felt, often touching coming-of-age novel set in 1930s America.

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Six-year-old Jean-Luc LaPointe, his little sister, and his spirited but vulnerable young mother have been abandoned—again—by his father, a charming con artist. With no money and nowhere else to go, the LaPointes create a fragile nest in a tenement building at 238 North Pearl Street in Albany, New York."