Tricia O’Brien’s San Francisco's Bayview Hunters Point reviewed by Midwest Book Review
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Tom Kennedy
on Fri 25 Nov 2005 11:11 AM PST |
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Midwest Book Review has named Tricia O’Brien’s San Francisco's Bayview Hunters Point one of the best books of 2005.
Here is the review from Donovan's bookshelf at the Midwest Book Review:
At long last comes a history of a San Francisco neighborhood which has
been largely neglected in larger overviews of the city - and it comes
from Tricia O'Brien, whose Irish/ Italian/Portuguese family has lived
in the Bayview for several generations. Any who know the area today may
be hard pressed to consider cows once walked up the now-busy Third
Street, or sheep were herded on Innes Avenue - yet the area was once
very rural, and the source of much of San Francisco's food. More so
than most other neighborhood books on the city, San Francisco's Bayview
Hunters Point is an essential purchase for any who would receive the
full flavor of the city's rural day
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