About this book
Frank, a troubled, somewhat desperate, Italo-American works long hours in the grocery store of a struggling Jewish family in a Brooklyn neighborhood. He develops a secret passion for his employer's attractive daughter.
- Criminals
- Fiction
- Grocers
- Italian Americans
- Jewish converts from Christianity
- Jewish families
- New York
- New York (State)
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