Record details

• ISBN: 1565123301
• ISBN: 9781565123304
• Physical Description: 298 pages ; 22 cm
• Publisher: Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2001.
• Copyright: ©1998

Content descriptions

General Note:

Originally published : 1998.

Formatted Contents Note:

1 Destination 5 -- 2 Avram Plotchnikoff's New Name 16 -- 3 A Nice Jewish Girl 25 -- 4 For Better or for Worse 31 -- 5 God's (So to Speak) Country 44 -- 6 Miss Brookie's Cousin Tom 55 -- 7 Xenophobia 61 -- 8 My Father's Fancy Footwork 68 -- 9 Bronson's Low-Priced Store 82 -- 10 Green Eyeshades 90 -- 11 No Picnic 100 -- 12 Opening Day 112 -- 13 In Christ's Name, Amen 127 -- 14 A Gleam in My Mother's Eye 136 -- 15 Two Social Calls 143 -- 16 A House and Neighbors 161 -- 17 My Mother's Dilemma 174 -- 18 Seth's New Job 184 -- 19 New York Aunts 197 -- 20 Bar Mitzvah Question 217 -- 21 Gentiles 226 -- 22 Joey's Homecoming 231 -- 23 Miriam's Romance 239 -- 24 Aunt Hannah's Wedding 247 -- 25 Concordia's Savior 256 -- 26 Miriam's Rescue 271 -- 27 Push Comes to Shove 281.

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Genre:

Autobiographies.