In "The Victory Gardens of Brooklyn", Merrill Joan Gerber, so often applauded for her pure and natural prose, illuminates the sorrows and triumphs of three generations of sisters from an American Jewish family. Rachel and Rose, who come to America from Poland, discover their fates in New York's Lower East Side, where "the streets are paved with gold." Rachel's daughters, Ava, Musetta, and Gilda, live the passionate drama of their family's destiny while the world fights two wars. In war and peace the men they love, their husbands and sons, bring them both ecstasy and bitter grief. Musetta's...
In "The Victory Gardens of Brooklyn", Merrill Joan Gerber, so often applauded for her pure and natural prose, illuminates the sorrows and triumphs of ...