Changing light
By: Nora Gallagher
Edition: 1st ed
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780805242072; 9780375424519
Subjects: Manhattan Project (U.S.) -- Fiction; Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory -- Fiction; Scientists -- Fiction; Women painters -- Fiction; Atomic bomb -- United States -- History -- Fiction; Los Alamos (N.M.) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: "To the wicked son, who asks "What does all this mean to you?" To the Jews who, in the sixties, envied the Black Power Movement; who, in the nineties, envied the Palestinians; who weep at Exodus but jeer at the Israeli Defense Forces; who nod when Tevye praises tradition but fidget through the seder; who might take their curiosity to a dogfight, to a bordello or an opium den but find ludicrous the notion of a visit to the synagogue; whose favorite Jew is Anne Frank and whose second-favorite does not exist; who are humble in their desire to learn about Kwanzaa and proud of their ignorance of Tu Bi'Shvat; who dread endogamy more than incest; who bow the head reverently at a baptism and have never attended a bris-to you, who find your religion and race repulsive, your ignorance of your history a satisfaction, here is a book from your brother. Book jacket."--Jacket.