Jonathan Rosen
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Formats
Description
An Intimate Window into the American Immigrant Experience
Morris Bober, the family patriarch, yearns for better fortune as he runs a grocery store, never expecting how two robbers would change his life. Working alongside Morris, Frank Alpine, with his own complex relationship with the Jewish community, finds himself entangled in a web of emotions and conflicting actions. As he becomes smitten with Helen Bober, he simultaneously finds himself embroiled...

