Autographed Book: Life In New York: How I Learned to Love Squeegee Men, Token Suckers, Trash Twisters, and Subway Sharks by Laura Pedersen

Author and playwright Laura Pedersen and Parity Productions have formed a long-term relationship through several productions of Ms. Pedersen's work: For Heaven's Sake! at 710 Main Theatre in Buffalo, the Off-Broadway production of The Brightness of Heaven at the Cherry Lane Theater, the Midtown International Theatre Festival production of the musical This Will All Be Yours and several short plays. 

Laura Pedersen, author of bestseller Play Money and award-winning Buffalo Gal, serves up a hilarious memoir about three decades of city life. Originally from Buffalo, NY, friends thought the seventeen year old was suffering from blizzard delirium when she left Buffalo for Manhattan. Pedersen experiences her adopted city in the best and worst of times while becoming the youngest person to have a seat on the stock exchange, performing stand up comedy, and writing a column in the New York Times. Neighborhoods that feature chai bars, Pilates studios, and Gymboree were once drug dens, ganglands, and shantytowns. New Yorkers are as diverse as the city they so colorfully inhabit, cautious but generous, brash but welcoming. Both are captured through the comedic eye of Pedersen. Enjoy an uproarious romp down memory lane as the city emerges as the modern metropolis we know today. laurapedersenbooks.com