Tara Clancy classifies herself as an endanged species. A child of the 80’s, born in Queens to an Irish-American cop and an Italian-American social worker who were divorced when Tara was two years old. With her time split into a range of zip codes between grandparents, father, mother and her mother’s new wealthy boyfriend, Mark, Tara could be at Key Food with her grandmother, scheming around the “10 sale items per customer” rule; on the playground instigating or spectating all-out brawls with similarly fearless outer-borough kids; holding court beside her dad and their crew of misfits at his local bar; or swimming with her mother in the lagoon that Mark built just for Tara on his Bridgehampton lawn.
This hilarious and insightful coming of age narrative will take you on an unforgettable journey through the far-reaching perspectives of Tara’s upbringing. The Clancys of Queens is an essntial new offering from a voice that’s astonishingly underrepresented on our shelves and in our national conversation: that of an authentic working class woman in America. We hope you will join us for the launch of this wildly entertianing and refreshing memoir.
Tara Clancy is a natural storyteller. She is a Moth GrandSlam winner and celebrated host of the hit show’s live events across the country. Clancy has been featured on programs such as NPR’s “Snap Judgement,” “Risk!,” and “The Story Collider,” with writing published in The New York Times, The Paris Review Daily, The New York Times Magazine, and The Rumpus.