An "immigrant" novel, about a Jewish family living in turn-of-the-twentieth-century New York, told through the eyes and consciousness of a small boy named David. The sights, sounds, smells, of the time all captured here, right down to the dialects of various New York denizens. Sometimes it gets a little convoluted, but overall I enjoyed it and am curious what the author's other work, published more than sixty years later, is like.