On the eve of World War II, one German Jewish family is forced to emigrate and face a new future in America, one fraught with degradations big and small, which each person suffers and conquers in a unique way.
Egon Schneider, a thriving ophthalmologist and ladies' man in Frankfurt, is reduced to being "The Cheese Man" at a local grocery in Washington Heights; Catrina Harty, a vivacious daughter of dirt-poor Irish immigrants, has fought her way to a comfortable if unhappy spinsterhood; and Meyer Leavitt, Egon's terminally acerbic best friend, is a former children's book author turned sandwich-board salesman turned newspaper columnist.
Together they suffer the wonders and indignities of this strange new world--and each other--in the hopes of creating a permanent home for "The Lucky Ones."
- ISBN10 1455571431
- ISBN13 9781455571437
- Publish Date 25 January 2018 (first published 12 September 2017)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 March 2024
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Grand Central Publishing
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 336
- Language English