A Star Shines Over Mt. Morris Park

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Mercy Of A Rude Stream Volume 1 - A masterpiece, not remotely like anything else in American literature'

Returning to the milieu of Call It Sleep, Jewish Harlem at the beginning of the century, Roth introduces us to 14 year-old Ira Stigman and his extended family. It is 1914 and the family must contend with the impact of war on themselves and their homelands. Ira has other issues - sexuality the racism of his peers, a bullying and failed father, the search for his own identity...