Her First American

A classic novel of the immigrant experience Lore Segal may have come closer than anyone to writing the Great American Novel. The New York Times Book Review Shes Ilka Weissnix, a young Jewish refugee from Hitlers Europe, newly arrived in the United States. Hes Carter Bayoux, her first American: a middle-aged, hard-drinking Black intellectual. Lore Segals brilliant novel is the story of their love affairone of the funniest and saddest in modern fiction.