Eb: A boy...a family...a neighborhood....and a lost civilization...memories of growing up in Brooklyn, NY in the '40s and - Softcover

EB is a love-song to a time and a place. A wonderful place of neighborhoods and parishes and consistency and constancy; a place of well-used front stoops, second-home candy stores and club-like saloons; a place of time honored values and life-long friendships; a contrarily sophisticated but endearingly innocent place; the biggest small town in America...Brooklyn, NY. At a magical moment in time...the 1940s and '50s."...an evocative coming-of-age story...an honest and engaging tale of a feisty Catholic Irish kid growing up in the 1940s and 1950s East Flatbush. Kemp describes his world in meticulous detail, painting a vivid picture that those who have never set foot in Brooklyn can easily envision." Sharon Seitz; USA TODAY

Bert Kemp was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY and educated in its schools and on its streets. After college he spent thirty years in the advertising business as a copyrighter. Working daily at his craft prepared him well for writing this, his first book.