Booklife Editor's Pick
da Vinci Eye Finalist, 2025 Eric Hoffer Award for cover design, by Sienna Long Distinguished Favorite, LGBTQ Nonfiction, 2025 Independent Press Award
Bronze, Creative Nonfiction, 2024 IPNE Award
2024 Bronze Award, LGBT, Global Book Awards
2024 Bronze Award, LGBTQ, International Book Awards
2024 Gold Winner, Nonfiction, Literary Titan Book Award
2024 Judge's Pick, Firebird Book Award
1st Place, Outstanding Creator Award for Grief and Coping / Trauma
Honorable Mention, Biography / Autobiography, London Book Festival

In this engaging new collection of personal essays and full-color photographs, Moed tells true stories of caring for her mother Florence, a broke, Julliard-trained pianist who stumbles into dementia on the Lower East Side. This funny, poignant memoir asks questions both familiar and touching: "What happened to the neighborhood?" and "What happened to my mom?"

It Was Her New York is for anyone who has ever experienced the aging of a parent, the gentrification of a neighborhood, or the unexpected discovery of stifled love and hidden sexuality.