In this stunning new collection, Cynthia Andrews finds the courage to explore her personal experiences as a native New Yorker during 9/11, as well as the present COVID crisis. She lays bare her unabashedly honest views of sex, society and the politics affecting us all. From her memory of her mother's death and war hero father, to the romance of a lost love she can never forget, in A Little Before Twelve her personal life becomes a powerful reality for the reader. It treads into the universal experience of memory and life itself.