The Kingdom of Brooklyn (Library of Modern Jewish Literature) - Softcover

Gerber, Merrill

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9780815606611: The Kingdom of Brooklyn (Library of Modern Jewish Literature)

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ISBN 10: 0815606613 ISBN 13: 9780815606611

Publisher: Syracuse University Press, 2000

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A ten-year chronicle of domestic violence and crisis, this novel recreates the pathology of one Brooklyn family in the mid-1940s and early 1950s, told through the voice of a young child.

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Winner of the Harold U. Ribalow Prize from Hadassah Magazine

About the Author:

Merrill Joan Gerber is a prize-winning novelist and short story writer. Among her novels are The Kingdom of Brooklyn, winner of the Ribalow Award from Hadassah Magazine, Anna in the Afterlife, chosen by the Los Angeles Times as a “Best Novel of 2002” and King of the World, which won the Pushcart Editors’ Book Award. Her stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Mademoiselle, The Sewanee Review, and elsewhere.

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