ASIN: B00598JJOQ
Publisher: Amazon
Pages: 326
In 1912, 16 year old Manny Aboulafia, seeking The American Dream, leaves the crumbling Ottoman Empire for New York. This novel weaves the lives of generations of his family during two of the seminal events of the twentieth century––The Great Depression and the Second World War. This family saga explores Manny's search for that elusive dream and how a chance encounter with a female professor at Barnard College profoundly alters both their lives. It depicts the struggles that challenge the family taking us west with his first born who deceives her way into becoming a screenwriter, and the trauma experienced by a son who barely survives the war. It is a tale of the true legacy of the immigrant experience––the transmission of ethical values challenged by the confrontation with reality. Underlying those values were hope, optimism, courage and perseverance, characteristics typical of those ...
