AT THE STRANGER'S GATE

When Adam Gopnik and his soon-to-be-wife, Martha, left the comforts of home in Montreal for New York, the city then, much like today , was a pilgrimage site for the young, the arty, and the ambitious. But it was also becoming a city of greed, where both life's cons olations and its necessities were increasingly going to the highest bidder. At the Stranger's Gate builds a portrait of this particu lar moment in New York through the story of this couple's journey--from their excited arrival as aspiring artists to their eventual growth in...[Leer más]