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Background: Originally from Co. Tyrone, Broderick is an Irish author living in NYC. His new memoir, That's That, is due to be released next May.
When and why did you move to the U.S.?
"I moved to the U.S. in 1988. My last memoir, Orangutan, covers the first 20 years 1 spent here in New York working construction, the drinking, the failed marriages, jail, the usual stuff. In my new memoir That's That, I try to get at the "why"."
What is your most vivid memory of the your first few months living in New York?
"Driving into Manhattan for the first time in a construction van with my cousins, just the amazement and the terror at the sheer size of the place took my breath away....