Description: A personal account of the author's discovery that his devoutly Catholic parents were in fact Jews, along with the details of his spiritual journey and identity transformation. The result of an overwhelmingly well-received "New York Times...
Synopsis A personal account of the author's discovery that his devoutly Catholic parents were in fact Jews, along with the details of his spiritual journey and identity transformation. The result of an overwhelmingly well-received "New York Times Magazine" cover story (1996). A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998.
Details
Publication Date:
2006-11-01
Series:
P.S.
Size
Length:
320 pages
Height:
8.0 in
Width:
5.3 in
Thickness:
1.0 in
Weight:
9.6 oz
Industry Reviews "...[an] intense, acutely observed and, in its documenting of both his intimate and extended family's move through history from intolerance to open-mindedness, exigent memoir." New York Times Book Review - Jonathan Wilson (11/08/1998)