THE HANGING BRANCH CLUB

A nostalgic, hilarious, and deeply touching coming-of-age memoir rooted in Cleveland's postwar Polish Catholic neighborhoods. Welcome to The Hanging Branch Club-where the first rule is don't make Mother mad, and the second is... there are a lot of rules. Set in 1950s Cleveland, this richly detailed and riotously funny story follows young Hope, a sharp-witted girl navigating a world of a domineering mother, secret childhood alliances, and the brutal honesty of growing up in a working-class Polish