How I Found America

In evoking the joy and pain of the Jewish immigrant experience, Anzia Yezierska has no peer. Her stories and novels, written from the 1920s to the 1960s, immortalized the Jews of New York's Lower East Side and their struggle to escape poverty and to partake of America's promise. How I Found America gathers together all of Yezierska's short fiction: the two collections published during her lifetime--Hungry Hearts and Children of Loneliness--and seven additional tales. Each story is authentic and immediate, as memorable as family history passed from one generation to the next. taken together, they constitute an enduring portrait of a time and a people.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Persea Books
Published: 10/01/1991
ISBN: 9780892553808
Pages: 330
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.88d