Groan Up: From Newark to Nebraska

About the Book

Groan Up: From Newark to Nebraska is a poetical memoir about family, neighborhood, lost childhood innocence, teenage angst, and the search for identity. Groan Up is not for everybody, but it is for anybody who wishes to take an odd journey filled with interesting characters, strange detours and black humor. The volume is divided into four books: the city (Newark, NJ), the suburbs (Maplewood, NJ), the campus (New Brunswick, NJ) and the country (Grand Island, Nebraska); each representing a different locale that the author lived through his early twenties.

Dave Marcus, Pulitzer Prize winning reporter and author (What it Takes to Pull Me Through: Why Teenagers Get in Trouble and How Four of Them Got Out - Houghton Mifflin) says of Groan Up —“Andrew Malekoff has a way of taking us on a long, dramatic journey with just a few words. ‘Groan Up’ is especially remarkable because the carefully-chosen details ring so true – a reader often gets a tingle, an ‘I’ve-been-there’ sense. What a pleasure to read an anti-memoir memoir – a series of telling moments and scenes that resonate with our own lives even as they bring us out of our own lives."

©2007 Andrew Malekoff

About the Author

Andrew Malekoff is a widely published author, editor, and poet. Groan Up: From Newark to Nebraska a true story (sort of) is his ninth book or monograph and second book of poetry. Among Mr. Malekoff’s publications are his first poetical work Nightcrawlers: after hours at the ER and the internationally acclaimed Group Work with Adolescents: Principles and Practice, published by the Guilford Press, now in its second edition and chosen as a main selection of the Behavioral Science Book Club. Mr. Malekoff is a social worker who has worked at the North Shore Child and Family Guidance Center in Roslyn Heights, New York, since 1977 where he is presently executive director / CEO He has been the editor of the professional journal Social Work with Groups: a journal of clinical and community practice, since 1990. He lives in Long Beach, New York, with his wife Dale, an art teacher. They have two sons, Jamie and Darren.