Saint Mazie : A Novel (Hardcover)

from maryreinert

After a slow start, this book became entertaining, sad, funny, and realistic. Mazie Phillips grew up in a neighborhood of poverty and when the Depression hit, it became worse. She is living with her sister, Rosie and her husband, Lewis who owns a movie theater along with other vague businesses. M...

from cjordan916

Meet Mazie Phillips: big-hearted and bawdy, she's the truth-telling proprietress of The Venice, the famed New York City movie theater. It's the Jazz Age, with romance and booze aplenty--even when Prohibition kicks in--and Mazie never turns down a night on the town. But her high spirits mask a chi...

from porch_reader

Mazie Phillips and her sister Jeanie are rescued from a difficult home life by their older sister Rosie and her husband Louis. Through journal entries and interviews with people connected with the Phillips sisters. Mazie works in a ticket booth in Louis's theate, and there, she gets to know the p...

from Maydacat

It's the Jazz Age, but for every person who spends the night reveling at a speakeasy, many more spend their waking hours working but barely surviving. Prohibition and the Great Depression bring additional problems and heartache. Through it all, the brave and hardy struggle on, but in New York, in...

from katiekrug

I am not going to try to describe much about this novel, except to say that it was a big-hearted, fun, vivid read with a central character wonderfully rendered as larger than life but still believable. I love novels about loneliness and connection, family both real and constructed, and alienation...