Broome Street Straws is a novel written by Robert Cortes Holliday, published in 1929. The story takes place in the Lower East Side of Manhattan during the 1920s and follows the lives of several characters who reside in a tenement building on Broome Street. The main character is a young man named Dan, who dreams of becoming a writer and escaping the poverty and struggles of his neighborhood. He becomes involved with a group of bohemian artists and...
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