Kingdom of Brooklyn

Winner of the Ribalow Prize from Hadassah Magazine, Merrill Joan Gerber superbly evokes an anguished child''s faltering steps toward consciousness... Gerber has written often—and grippingly—of tormented families… but never as daringly as here.

"In this brutally candid, semiautobiographical novel, Gerber again (as in King of the World) corrosively delineates the heinous abuses inflicted in the name ...