Much has been written about the Catskill Mountains resort experience. While the hotels were indeed as wonderful as many novels and histories describe them, this book is different. It tells a sometimes piercingly honest story of the family that owned the Hotel Brickman. It is a tale of strained family relations as Brickman’s and Posner’s ran the hotel over its 74 year history. But this story also is about deep familial love, hard work, commitment and a winding path to self-knowledge. Patti Posner, the boss’s daughter reveals (and thus preserves) the day-to-day life and inner workings of this now vanished world of the Catskills.
