CANCELLED - Meet Local Author: Stephen Axelrod

Local author, Stephen Axelrod, will be at the library to discuss his book, Surf Avenue: A Memoir. Axelrod grew up in Cambria Heights, Queens, in the 1950s. His father, a second-generation truck driver for the Daily News, wishes for nothing more than to see Stephen in the driver’s seat of his own truck. However, this former high school dropout had an entirely different life in mind. Stephen’s escape takes him on a poignant search for himself. From a stint in the US Marine Corps, to a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, an acting career, and beyond, Stephen’s life takes many swerves—with one constant: the secret insatiable desire for his father’s approval.

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