This magical realist tale follows the travails of a burnt-out teacher from Queens who spends his time obsessing over the fact that he has been cheated out of living in his Grandma Rose's Lower East Side apartment and is thus priced out of his More Recent Ancestral Home of Manhattan.
In The Lower East Side Tenement Reclamation Association , David Rothman weaves a rich story about real estate, family, and memory.
Daniel, the protagonist, is haunted by.