In her afterword, the author tells us that this book is "part memoir, part social history and part fiction."  I had the good fortune to listen to this book as an unabridged audio book.  It was read by a woman who had the perfect voice and Yiddish accent.  From the first moment, I was drawn into the Roth family and the teaming streets of the Jewish ghetto in New York.  I bonded with the characters and couldn't wait to have a chance to listen to just a bit more; I was truly saddened when the book came to an end, feeling like I had lost some very close friends.  I… read full review »