In this heartfelt novel, written in 1932, Fanya Ivanowna, a Polish Jew from New York's Lower East Side, meets Henry Scott, a well-bred professor who first helps her fulfill her ambition to become a writer, then falls in love with her--but only to change his mind and rebuff her socially. Fanya is hurt, but instead of returning to the ghetto to live among -her own people, - as so many have done before her, she decides to continue to better herself, to become more American. She moves to a small New England town, where she meets her soulmate, a non-Jewish Polish immigrant, and prepares to make...