Title: Changing Light
Subtitle: A Novel
First published: 2007
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.
Subjects: Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Fiction, Scientists, Manhattan Project (U.S.), Women painters, Atomic bomb, History, Self-hate (Psychology), Antisemitism, Jews, Identity, Jews, identity, Juifs, Identité collective, Antisémitisme
Places: Los Alamos (N.M.), United States
LC classification: PS3607.A415442 C47 2007