03058cam a2200385 i 4500 506903987 TxAuBib 20210907120000.0 190726s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019031968 9781982105280 HRD 26.00 1982105283 HRD 26.00 TxAuBib rda Herrera, Hayden. Upper Bohemia. Upper Bohemia [BOOK] : a memoir / Hayden Herrera. First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2021. xix, 248 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier The Big House -- Friends -- Turkey farm -- Divorce -- Manhattan -- Mountain climber -- Scary -- Granny Blair -- Birthday parties -- Thoughts -- The City -- Cornwall -- Dasya -- Mougouch -- Hickory Ridge -- Toads --The Manheims -- Gaga -- Naked -- Coche deMama -- Mexico -- Coyoacaan -- Cuernavaca -- Outings -- Parque Melchor Ocampo -- With family -- Without Blair -- Esquela Pan Americana -- Betrayal -- Myrtle Street -- Edward Norman -- Beach glass -- Postscript. Hayden Herrera’s parents each married five times; following their desires was more important to them than looking after their children. When Herrera was only three years old, her parents separated and she and her sister moved from Cape Cod to New York City to live with their mother and their new hard-drinking stepfather. They saw their father only during summers on the Cape, when they and the other neighborhood children would be left to their own devices by parents who were busy painting, writing, or composing music. These adults inhabited a world that Herrera’s mother called “upper bohemia,” a milieu of people born to privilege who chose to focus on the life of the mind. Her parents’ friends included such literary and artistic heavyweights as artist Max Ernst, writers Edmund Wilson and Mary McCarthy, architect Marcel Breuer, and collector Peggy Guggenheim. On the surface, Herrera’s childhood was idyllic and surreal. But underneath, the pain of being a parent’s afterthought was acute. Upper Bohemia captures the tension between a child’s excitement at every new thing and her sadness at losing the comfort of a reliable family. Provided by publisher. 20210907. Hererra, Hayden Family. Phillips family. Bohemianism United States Biography. Bohemianism United States History 20th century. Upper class women New York (State) New York City Biography. Upper class women Massachusetts Cape Cod Biography. Americans Mexico Biography. Artists Family relationships United States. Children of divorced parents United States Biography. Coming of age.