Shortly after World War II, a Japanese man is accused of murder in a small Washington town. Snow in August. A young catholic boy in Brooklyn in the late 1940s forms a bond with a rabbi, a recent immigrant from Prague. The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love. Cuban musicians become the toast of New York night life.
Trespassers Welcome Here.
Russian emigres in Los Angeles struggle to understand American culture. Working as an au pair for a wealthy couple, a young West Indian woman witnesses their family problems. Kingston, Maxine H. China Men. 1980. The author tells the stories of her patriarchial forbears whose lives she reconstructs out of memory and imagination. A Russian dancer in Brooklyn's Little Odessa becomes entangled in a web of crime and intrigue.