
Before All the World
A mesmerizing, inventive story of three souls in 1930s Philadelphia seizing new life while haunted by the old, from the award-winning author of Sadness Is a White Bird.
I do not believe that all the world is darkness.
In the swirl of Philadelphia at the end of Prohibition, Leyb meets Charles. They are at a former speakeasy called Cricket''s, a bar that welcomes, as Charles says in his secondhand Yid...
A mesmerizing, inventive story of three souls in 1930s Philadelphia seizing new life while haunted by the old, from the award-winning author of Sadness Is a White Bird.
I do not believe that all the world is darkness.
In the swirl of Philadelphia at the end of Prohibition, Leyb meets Charles. They are at a former speakeasy called Cricket''s, a bar that welcomes, as Charles says in his secondhand Yid...