Flatbush Odyssey: A Journey through the Heart of Brooklyn - Allen Abel - Hardcover

At the age of 43, writer Allen Abel decided to move home to Brooklyn, stay with his mother (in the same apartment in which he grew up), and explore and write about the borough of his birth. For several months he wandered along Flatbush Avenue, the thoroughfare that runs like a spine through Brooklyn. The result is a delightful family memoir and exploration of a unique place. He hobnobs with Mohawk high-steel workers, tries to learn voodoo secrets from Haitian immigrants, commiserates with policemen detailed to the subway, and chats with an ex-zookeeper in Prospect Park. He revisits the scenes of his childhood, samples social life in distant Flatlands, and hunts for horseshoe crabs on the shoreline.Flatbush Odysseyis a revelation, and in it Allen Abel has produced a marvellous piece of storytelling.Abel, Allen J. is the author of 'Flatbush Odyssey: A Journey through the Heart of Brooklyn - Allen Abel - Hardcover' with ISBN 9780771007033 and ISBN 0771007035.