Sellie & Dee A Friendship

Estelle Leontief records, with candor and rich humor, and with the perspective of age, the early years of a remarkable lifelong friendship: how two Jewish girls growing up in the Bronx in the first quarter of the century, learning to value expressiveness, ideas and opinions, find themselves silenced, in the dark, by the ardor of their young bodies, " a pair of magnets instinctively attracted to each other."