This book took a few chapters for me to get engaged in. HOWEVER, after that, I really loved this book. It is the story of an emigrant family in New York. The matriarch Manya, is a widow raising two small children, her son Jack and her little sister sent from Odessa. The story follows Manya, her child, her sister and her grandchildren. It is an enlightening story about what life was like for those in the Jewish Ghettos of New York. I really liked this book, it would be fabulous for a book club study. According to the book notes, much of this story was autobiographical and this is the now deceased author's only novel. She did write a book about censorship and testified as an expert witness in an obscenity trial involving the banning in San Diego of Henry Miller's controversial novel, "Tropic of Cancer." Fascinating and so different from any of my experiences. A great book!
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