In Francine Prose's latest novel, her protagonist finds himself at the crossroads of lies, love and espionage, navigating his Jewish identity in a world of 'unassailable privilege.'
Set in the honky-tonk milieu of 1930s Atlantic City, New Jersey’s summer playground, the story begins with the shocking and unexplained drowning of Florence Adler.
Critics acclaim Cynthia Ozick as one of the finest American writers alive today, and the Jewish community can rightly claim her as its own literary laureate.