Lore Segal: Her First American

Lore Segal: Her First American

(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

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