Booklife Editor's Pick

2024 Bronze Award, LGBT, Global Book Awards

2024 Bronze Award, LGBTQ, International Book Awards

2024 Gold Winner, Nonfiction, Literary Titan Book Award

2024 Judge's Pick, Firebird Book Award

1st Place, Outstanding Creator Award for Grief and Coping / Trauma

Honorable Mention, Biography / Autobiography, London Book Festival

True stories and accidental snapshots about undying love, old lesbians, dementia, mothers & daughters, and a disappearing city.

In this engaging new collection of personal essays and full-color photographs, Moed tells true stories of caring for her mother Florence, a broke, Julliard-trained pianist who stumbles into dementia on the Lower East Side. This funny, poignant memoir asks questions both familiar and touching: "What happened to the neighborhood?" and "What happened to my mom?"

It Was Her New York is for anyone who has ever experienced the aging of a parent, the gentrification of a neighborhood, or the unexpected discovery of stifled love and hidden sexuality.