Two jewish boys growing to manhood in Brooklyn discover that differences can strengthen friendship and understanding.

"For readers of The Nightingale and, an exquisitely moving novel about friendship, love, and redemption in a circle of immigrants who flee Europe for 1930s-era New York City. On the eve of World War II Egon Schneider--a gallant and successful Jewish doctor, son of two world-famous naturalists--escapes Germany to an uncertain future across the sea. Settling into the unfamiliar rhythms of upper Manhattan, he finds solace among a tight-knit group of...

"From the author of Krazy Kat and The Death of Che Guevara, the tumultuous story of a group of friends growing up idealistic, radical, and romantic in the sixties and seventies." "We enter their lives in 1960 as a sixth-grade class of Great Neck kids - most of them Jewish - learns for the first time, in horrifying detail, about the Holocaust, with its moral imperative to "make justice" in the world. When the older brother of one of the students is...