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 consolations and its necessities were increasingly going to the highest bidder. A portrait of this particular moment in New York through the story of this couple's journey, from their excited arrival as aspiring artists to their eventual growth into a New York family.
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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 consolations and its necessities were increasingly going to the highest bidder. A portrait of this particular moment in New York through the story of this couple's journey, from their excited arrival as aspiring artists to their eventual growth into a New York family.
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