Klonsky pens short story about growing up in the Bronx for magazine
Dr. Bruce Klonsky
Childhood memories of growing up in the Bronx are revisited by Department of Psychology Professor Bruce Klonsky in a short story he wrote for the Winter 2021 edition of “Back in the Bronx: Celebrating the Experience of Growing Up in the Bronx” magazine.
In “A Mother’s Ascendance,” readers learn that Dr. Klonsky, then a “goody-two-shoes” outfitted in suspenders and a bowtie in elementary school, wants to join a gang. Only problem is the gang initiation – shoplift an item from a store. He manages to clear that threshold, but his mother had the last word with the baseball cards he’d pilfered.
The article also includes a family photo taken at Klonsky’s bar mitzvah in 1963 and a photograph of the six-story tenement building where his family lived.
“Back in the Bronx,” a quarterly published for 24 years, celebrates the experience of growing up and living in the Bronx in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.
