A 70-Year-Old Story Comes To Life In New Book By Westchester Author

You know how you hear your grandparent's stories over and over but then one day you finally listen and realize there's something incredible there? In a way that's what happened to Yvette Manessis Corporon . When the Yonkers resident first wrote "When the Cypress Whispers" in 2014, a novel about the deep bond between an American woman and her Greek grandmother, she wove in the story her "ya ya" had always told her: about how the people of Erikousa, a small Greek island, hid a Jewish family during World War II.

The Group Rep’s Lost in Yonkers Opens Next Week at the Lonny Chapman Theatre

The Group Rep presents Neil Simon 's Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning comedic drama directed by Larry Eisenberg , produced by Doug Haverty . This touching coming-of-age story set in Yonkers, New York, centers around two brothers whose mother has died, who are forced to live with their grandmother and their mentally challenged aunt, while their father travels, desperately trying to scrape together enough money to pay off his debts to a loan shark.