My Mother's Son by David Hirshberg bilingual Jennifer Glaser examines how racial

Jennifer Glaser examines how racial ventriloquism became a hallmark of Jewish-American fiction

Editors Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath

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My Mother's Son by David Hirshberg bilingual Jennifer Glaser examines how racial"Hirshberg's debut novel packs both emotional punch and a vivid portrait of Jewish American life in post WWII Boston. . . . Readers will find connections here to Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay and to Saul Bellow's classic The Adventures of Augie March." Booklist (ALA), starred review My Mother's Son, the meticulously crafted debut novel from David Hirshberg, is a story told by a radio raconteur revisiting his past in post