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If You Don't Believe Me, Ask Buffalo
At Buffalo’s groundbreaking Bennett Park Montessori Center—America’s first public Montessori school for grades Pre-K through 8—a Black boy and a white girl once shared a classroom, a playground, and a desegregation experiment dressed in primary colors and geometric shapes.
Decades later, they’re telling their life stories—but very differently.
In this raw and revelatory dual memoir, two former classmates revisit a childhood shaped by a city struggling with racial and economic divides. While school brought them together, their experiences reveal the stark differences in how they moved through the same spaces.
Told in two distinct voices, If You Don’t Believe Me, Ask Buffalo blends sharp humor with unflinching honesty. From gym class to playground crushes, haunted houses to parental expectations, their stories reveal how identity, gender, and race fractured what could have been shared memories.
Funny, fierce, and painfully illuminating, If You Don’t Believe Me is not just about one school in Buffalo—it’s about America’s quiet divides, and what it means to grow up together, but worlds apart.
Decades later, they’re telling their life stories—but very differently.
In this raw and revelatory dual memoir, two former classmates revisit a childhood shaped by a city struggling with racial and economic divides. While school brought them together, their experiences reveal the stark differences in how they moved through the same spaces.
Told in two distinct voices, If You Don’t Believe Me, Ask Buffalo blends sharp humor with unflinching honesty. From gym class to playground crushes, haunted houses to parental expectations, their stories reveal how identity, gender, and race fractured what could have been shared memories.
Funny, fierce, and painfully illuminating, If You Don’t Believe Me is not just about one school in Buffalo—it’s about America’s quiet divides, and what it means to grow up together, but worlds apart.
173 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 6, 2025
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