Monday, January 14, 2008

The Empress of Weehawken by Irene Dische


Recommended by Peter D.G. Brown, Professor of German
Call Number: PS3554.I825 E47 2007

This is a debut novel written from the point of view of Dische's German grandmother, proudly "Aryan" and anti-Semitic, who marries a Jewish doctor and emigrates to New Jersey with him in the 1930s. It's a very funny and poignant semi-fictional account of three generations of this quirky German-American family of truly bizarre intellectuals.

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