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Trying to Float Author: Nicolaia Rips

ISBN: 9781471156861 Format: Hardcover Number Of Pages: 272 Published: 13 July 2016 Country of Publication: GB Dimensions (cm): 22.3 x 14.2 x 2.5 Description: "They were like balloons that had escaped a child's grasp - pointlessly floating. "Focus!" I would plead with my mother. And my father was forever being diverted."

Allow us to introduce you to the Rips family: Michael, Sheila and daughter Nicolaia, the last denizens of New York's famous Chelsea Hotel. Better yet, allow Nicolaia to introduce them since it's her earnest, wry, occasionally wicked, but always affectionate observations that you'll find in her memoir, Trying to Float. Not only a coming-of-age story set in an enigmatic New York landmark, this is also the clever love story of a family, navigating the curiosities of their home.

About the Author

Nicolaia Rips attends LaGuardia High School for the Performing Arts in New York City (class of 2016), where she is an active member of LaGuardia's literary magazine, LaGuardia Magazine. She has lived at the Chelsea Hotel for her entire life. In her spare time, she studies vocal music, participates in team sports, reads avidly, and tolerates her parents. Trying to Float is her first book.

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