The Yonkers Trilogy
The Yonkers saga starts in 1969 at Woodstock and ends four years later at the roach infested Remington Hotel in Manhattan. Cookie Colangelo, the teen heroine of the Yonkers Trilogy, grapples with racism, sexual awakening, abortion, child abuse, homophobia, mental illness, organized crime, violence, death, lost love and lost friendship among the working class and poor in Yonkers.
The Death of a Library: An American Tragedy
The Death of a Library: An American Tragedy is non-fiction, and not part of the fictional Yonkers trilogy, but the culmination of investigative reporting.