A major work of autobiographical fiction by a second generation Holocaust writer--funny, erotic, irreverent, and deeply moving. Zosha Palovsky was born in a Displaced Persons camp in Germany, the daughter of Holocaust survivors, but she has grow...
Although Pilcer's first novel was published for an adult audience, it quickly gained cult status among high school cognoscenti. A classic novel of adolescence, West Side Story told from the point of view of a 14-year-old Jewish girl, who prefers the ...
“I’m not the kind of girl you think I am. That’s what I tell guys. Sure, they say, you’re no whore. Meanwhile, sweetheart, they’ve got their hands all over me. Which I certainly don’t mind. But I figure I have to be straight with them. Ot...
It's the late 1970s. Aging sirens, dreamers, eccentrics and connivers live in a small residential hotel on the Upper West Side. Their tiny suites, separated by cracked plaster walls, are paved withgolden stories, woven together in this novel of funny...