Trying to Float - Chronicles of a Girl in the Chelsea Hotel
Author(s): Nicolaia Rips
"They were like balloons that had escaped a child's grasp - pointlessly floating. "Focus!" I would plead with my mother. And my father was forever being diverted." Allow us to introduce you to the Rips family: Michael, Sheila and daughter Nicolaia, the last denizens of New York's famous Chelsea Hotel. Better yet, allow Nicolaia to introduce them since it's her earnest, wry, occasionally wicked, but always affectionate observations that you'll find in her memoir, Trying to Float. Not only a coming-of-age story set in an enigmatic New York landmark, this is also the clever love story of a family, navigating the curiosities of their home.
Product Information
Nicolaia Rips attends LaGuardia High School for the Performing Arts in New York City (class of 2016), where she is an active member of LaGuardia's literary magazine, LaGuardia Magazine. She has lived at the Chelsea Hotel for her entire life. In her spare time, she studies vocal music, participates in team sports, reads avidly, and tolerates her parents. Trying to Float is her first book.
General Fields
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- : Simon & Schuster Ltd
- : Simon & Schuster Ltd
- : July 2016
- : 234mm X 153mm
- : United Kingdom
- : July 2016
- : books
Special Fields
- : Nicolaia Rips
- : Hardback
- : 647.94092
- : 272
- : b-w photographs