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Patricia Vaccarino Author Chat June 22 Yonkers Public Library

Patricia Vaccarino
June 06, 2023

The Yonkers Public Library hosts Patricia Vaccarino in author chat via zoom on Thursday, June 22.

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The Trust Between the Mainstream Media and the Working Class is Broken

PR for People Team
May 17, 2023

So Not Yonkers, the third book in the Yonkers Trilogy by Patricia Vaccarino, is realistic fiction that examines a grim reality—the world is rigged against everyone who is either poor or from the working class. Although the Yonkers Trilogy covers the time from 1969 to 1973, the issues prevalent then are the same issues that we grapple with today. 

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So Not Yonkers is the third book in the Yonkers trilogy

PR for People Team
May 01, 2023

So Not Yonkers by Patricia Vaccarino has been released. Ms. Vaccarino’s controversial coming-of-age novels take us on a dark journey encountering racism, sexual harassment, abortion, child abuse, homophobia, mental illness, organized crime, violence, death, lost love and lost friendship among the working class and poor in Yonkers. So Not Yonkers is the third book in her Yonkers trilogy.

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NOTES FROM THE WORKING-CLASS: Young Flesh

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Patricia Vaccarino
August 31, 2019

I remember being 16 and needing no other beauty accoutrement than a dab of gloss on my flesh-colored lips. I also remember creepy old men stalking me because I was young, pretty and wearing a high school uniform. Filthy old fools. They were everywhere: in the subway, in alleys, standing by bus stops or on the street in front of hotels as fancy as the Pierre and museums as old as the MET.

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