A family saga that follows the narrator as he rejects this assimilated world and embraces the rites of Judaism through a combination of biography and philosophy.
Written with the keen eye of a journalist, the perspective of a historian, and the love of a grandchild, Lemann charts the course of five of his family’s generations in America ... For anyone who wants an intimate story with universal themes that will challenge and inspire us, and make us think about our own families’ stories.
A family portrait in a unique milieu — Faulkner and Robert Penn Warren meets Irving Howe’s World of Our Fathers ... A compelling read, all the more so for how its personal investigation brushes up against American history.
