Drawing to an inside straight
Subtitle: the legacy of an absent father
By: Jodi Varon.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780826216465
Subjects: Varon, Jodi, 1953-- -- Family.; Varon, Jodi, 1953-- -- Childhood and youth.; Jews -- Colorado -- Denver -- Social life and customs.; Sephardim -- Colorado -- Social life and customs.; Ashkenazim -- Colorado -- Social life and customs.
Genres: Social life and customs.
Description: "Varon interweaves recollections of growing up in Vietnam-era Denver with stories of her gambler father, son of Sephardic Jewish immigrants, and offers an introduction to Sephardic culture contrasted with Ashkenazic culture, examines the forging of identity within the potentially destructive American "melting pot," and challenges stereotypes of the American West"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Bennie; title: Benji; title: Benjamin; title: The tongue's delight; title: When quizzac was cherry; title: Rubes in New York; title: In the vale; title: The second ace; title: Levitation; title: Paella and yellow cabs; title: Ben-anna split; title: Spinoza's trade; title: I'd give my life for a drink of raki; title: Doppelgangers, daughters; title: In amsterdam; title: Along the route of the caliphate; title: The man in the porkpie hat.