num_pages: 304
description: She's Ilka Weissnix, a young Jewish refugee from Hitler's Europe, newly arrived in the United States. He's Carter Bayoux, her first a middle-aged, hard-drinking black intellectual. Lore Segal's brilliant novel is the story of their love affair―one of the funniest and saddest in modern fiction.
language: English
title: Her First American
titlecomplete: Her First American
genres: Fiction, American, Female Authors, Romance, Literature, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Race
ratings_count: 383
publisher: The New Press