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Starred Review on July 1, 2013 | Fiction
Rose Zimmer, an unreconstructed communist who torments her neighbors in Sunnyside Gardens, NY, and daughter Miriam, a strong-willed political activist who shares her mother's misplaced ideology but rejects her influence, instead forging her own way in the subculture of Greenwich Village, are the central characters in this stunning new novel by Brooklyn-based Lethem (Motherless Brooklyn). Miriam marries Irish folksinger Tommy Gogan, and their ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More