O My America!
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In 1972, sixty-four-year-old Ezra Slavin's heart gives out at an anti-war rally. A contentious and irascible Jewish-American writer, anarchist, and inadvertent guru to discontented youth, he leaves behind a large extended family of ex-wives, lovers, and children, most of whom had cut all ties with the infuriating intellectual provocateur years earlier. Out of the entire family, only one daughter, Merry, a journalist, can remember her father with her own critical, conflicted understanding, a saddened sympathy approaching love. As the day of his memorial approaches, she attempts to make sense of the puzzle of Ezra's life before all of its disparate, discordant elements come crashing together at the service.
The award-winning author of
, Johanna Kaplan creates a vivid cast of unforgettable characters who reveal the disparity between Ezra's long-suffering, neglected family, his admiring friends, and the youthful hangers-on—and, most notably, in the outrageously enigmatic Ezra himself. At once hilarious and poignant,
offers a fascinating evocation of a time and place in America, a satiric history of the immigrant Jewish experience, and a wonderful portrait of an exasperating yet endearing anti-hero pursuing his unique vision of the American dream.
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About Johanna Kaplan
Johanna Kaplan was born in New York City and studied at New York University and Columbia University. Her collection of stories,
, was nominated for a National Book Award and the Hemingway/PEN Award, and won the National Jewish Book Award in 1976. Her novel
, also nominated for a National Book Award, won the Edward Lewis Wallant Award in 1981. Kaplan’s stories have appeared in
and
. She has received grants for her writing from the New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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