The baker
Subtitle: a novel
By: Paul Hond.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
Subjects: Bakers and bakeries -- Fiction; Teenage boys -- Fiction; Fathers and sons -- Fiction; Middle age -- Fiction; Blacks -- Relations with Jews -- Fiction; Baltimore (Md.) -- Fiction
Description: The baker is Mickey Lerner - family man, ex-boxer, Jewish merchant, a man of confused passions who exists in a community polarized by racial mistrust. One day, Mickey's life is changed by a shocking crime, forcing him to explore the mysteries of his marriage and the awkwardness of life with his eighteen-year-old son. Mickey must also face the racial tension surrounding him - a legacy of violence between blacks and whites that threatens both his family and his bakery.

Above all, Mickey must confront himself: his feelings, his desires, and the memory of a tragic event from his past.