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 She's Ilka Weissnix, a young Jewish refugee from Hitler's Europe, newly arrived in the United States. He's Carter Bayoux, her first American: a middle-aged, hard-drinking Black intellectual. Lore Segal's brilliant novel is the story of their love affair-one of the funniest and saddest in modern fiction.