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What did it mean to become American in the mid-20th century? Peter Lefcourt goes beyond assimilation to take a nostalgic and dramatic look at what makes us truly American in AN AMERICAN FAMILY.
Lefcourt reaches back to his own family and memories to inform this saga. “Though this is not an autobiographical novel, it is, in a larger sense, a ‘cultural autobiography’ – specifically, that of Jewish-Americans born in the 1940’s. Our experiences are similar to that of all immigrants – Italian, Irish, Vietnamese, Iranian, etc. – as we all navigate the tide of our new culture.”
To celebrate the release of AN AMERICAN FAMILY, we’ve organized a blog tour featuring author Q&A’s, guest blogs, reviews and an excerpt scavenger hunt. Follow the links below to find fresh content each day.
June 15 As Nathan Perl looked out over the cutting floor of J&J Frocks…
June 16 His professional eye admired the elegant lines…
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June 17 Besides, the cutting floor was running slow…
June 18 After working from eight in the morning to seven at night …
June 19 Nathan got up from his desk to go out and give him hell…
June 20 “Yeah. She’s going to die from the heat in that thing.”
June 21 Maybe Marilyn’s life hadn’t been perfect, but whose was?
June 22 There was a beauty parlor in Westbury, ten minutes away…
June 23 “He’s got these big ears, and big hands. I bet you he’s a groper…”
June 24 If only that asshole Y.A. Tittle hadn’t decided to run out the clock …
June 25 The veteran Nassau County Clerk knew a lot of people in Long Island politics…
June 26 Nathan was proud of him, introducing him to the people at J&J Frocks as my son the lawyer…
June 27 There was only one single room in the entire house…
June 28 With his immigrant father, he had grown up in an atmosphere of constant scrimping…
June 29 He wanted his kids to place a long-distance phone call to him…
June 30 His fraternity brothers were in a rowdy mood…
July 1 It was a little early for that. Michael was not even 21 yet…
July 2 And, closer to him but harder to hear, Michael heard the Mulligan riff stop…
July 3 The weather was grey and cold, snow just around the corner, on this particular Friday in late November…
July 4 But Nathan Perl gave money to Israel and to the B’nai Brith and could tell you exactly who was Jewish and who wasn’t on Stratford Drive…
July 5 He went to a rundown little shul near his shop…
July 6 If he hadn’t left Poland in 1928, at age eleven, he would have been swept up in the events of the 1930’s and 40’s and probably wouldn’t have survived…
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July 7 Her parents had spent the first six months of their marriage living with Uncle Meyer above his tailor shop …
July 8 She was walking aimlessly, as if she didn’t know where she was going, moving erratically between the outdoor tables…
July 9 For one thing, he was younger than just about everyone in the junior class. And shorter…
July 10 It was the same thing every year…
July 11 The door to the Boys Room opened…
July 12 Having to get up at the crack of dawn so that her father could drive her to school made Bobbie tired all day long…
July 13 She had to be home by eleven-thiry on Saturday nights…
July 14 “You know who’s cute?” Susan Braunstein said. “Norman Schecter.”
July 15 Bobbie trudged into her home room, along with her girlfriends, and took her seat…