Title: The Baker
First published: 1997
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.
Subjects: Fiction, Bakers and bakeries, Teenage boys, Blacks, Middle age, Relations with Jews, Fathers and sons, Bakeries, Bakers, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, jewish, Fathers and sons, fiction, Baltimore (md.), fiction, Blacks, fiction, Black people
Places: Baltimore (Md.)
LC classification: PS3558.O466 B3 1997