From Baghdad to Brooklyn
Sephardim
Arab Americans
Children of immigrants
New york (n.y.), social life and customs
Poets, American
Jewish families
Poets, biography
American Poets
Homes and haunts
Childhood and youth
Family
Social life and customs
Biography
Inspired by the posthumous discovery of letters written by his father but never mailed, Jack Marshall’s memoir is both a moving story of a writer’s artistic coming-of-age and a lush, lyrical recollection of a childhood spent in Brooklyn’s Arabic-speaking Jewish community. Born in 1936 to an Iraqi fa…
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