Sitting on the Stoop: A Girl Grows in Brooklyn, 1944-1957 by Janice Pearlstein Alper; self-published; ISBN 9781734-859317; 297 pages; $15 Sitting on the Stoop by Janice Alper SAN DIEGO – La Jolla resident Janice Pearlstein Alper has a wonderful memory. She is an octogenarian, yet she is able to recall vividly the sights, smells, and her first impressions while a child growing up a Brooklynite in a three-generation home ruled by her Orthodox Jewish grandfather. Her contemporaries will smile with nostalgia while perusing many of the 63 vignettes in the easy-to-read memoir. Younger generations of…