The Apostate's Daughter

A Novel

Fiction & Literature, Literary
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Author: Frances Wexler O’Connell ISBN: 9781440117053
Publisher: iUniverse Publication: February 9, 2009
Imprint: iUniverse Language: English
Author: Frances Wexler O’Connell
ISBN: 9781440117053
Publisher: iUniverse
Publication: February 9, 2009
Imprint: iUniverse
Language: English

On a snowy morning in 1908, Baltimore police try to identify the corpse of a teenage boy who has frozen to death. Hes not a Polack, one says, or a Heinie, or a Guinea. No, the other replies, hes an Izzy.

Some forty years later, Jennifer Miller, a college junior, has no idea that this dead boy has been shadowing her life. Her father, Lee, a man of many talents, has long ago broken with his immigrant family; shed his religion; transplanted his wife and daughter; and decided to raise Jennifer a Protestant, exacting a pledge that she forget all about being Jewish.

Lee has mentored her, indulged her, entertained her with wicked puns, and unintentionally strengthened her by forcing her to cope with his moods, rages, and elaborate schemes to substantiate his gentile identity. But now the obedient daughter has a new love in her life, a classmate, World War II veteran Cleve Hamilton, who one fateful day sat down next to her in church. She must decide whether to perpetuate the family lie or reveal the truth, as her father, reversing his past warnings, insists she must.

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On a snowy morning in 1908, Baltimore police try to identify the corpse of a teenage boy who has frozen to death. Hes not a Polack, one says, or a Heinie, or a Guinea. No, the other replies, hes an Izzy.

Some forty years later, Jennifer Miller, a college junior, has no idea that this dead boy has been shadowing her life. Her father, Lee, a man of many talents, has long ago broken with his immigrant family; shed his religion; transplanted his wife and daughter; and decided to raise Jennifer a Protestant, exacting a pledge that she forget all about being Jewish.

Lee has mentored her, indulged her, entertained her with wicked puns, and unintentionally strengthened her by forcing her to cope with his moods, rages, and elaborate schemes to substantiate his gentile identity. But now the obedient daughter has a new love in her life, a classmate, World War II veteran Cleve Hamilton, who one fateful day sat down next to her in church. She must decide whether to perpetuate the family lie or reveal the truth, as her father, reversing his past warnings, insists she must.

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