In the book, the EGOT winner writes about growing up in New York City with her mother, Emma, and her older brother, Clyde. She was in awe of her mother for creating so many wonderful memories of happy holidays and adventures around the city for the family despite not having much money.“The thing that she did always say to us is that she wanted us to be children as long as we could be. She wanted us to always be filled with wonder and magic and believe in things that everybody was going to tell me as an adult to stop believing in,”
