These stories range through the devastation of World War II and the Holocaust, the losses, the disruptions of families broken apart, never to reunite, and on to the immigrant experience in America, earlier lives and loves lost in Europe, while men and women struggle to live and love again in a new land. They touch too upon the private wars of the body and spirit, with terminal cancer, with alcohol, with disappointment and disillusion. They illuminate the rituals that bring human beings together in hope and renewal.The characters are etched unflinchingly in the light of an ironic yet compassionate intelligence.
