(Fiction, 287 pp. 1994)
This surprisingly comic novel follows the adventures of Ilka Weissnix, a 21-year-old Austrian Jew who has survived the War and come to the United States. As she explores her new world, she enters into an unlikely romance with an older African-American intellectual, who also turns out to be losing a battle with alcoholism
- Review: Kirkus
- Review by Vivian Gornick, Nation, December 13, 2004
- Review by Carolyn Kizer, New York Times, May 19, 1985
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- Drew Johnson interviews Lore Segal, Bookslut, December 2011
- Audio and Video: Julie Orringer interviews Lore Segal, New York Public Library, May 5, 2010 (66 min.)
