![]() She prudently accepted, later bearing Jacob, who-ll become Jake Blair when he makes it to Wyoming, and Ruthie, great-grandmother to Lauren. What or who was their missing link? On sighting the Statue of Liberty, one Herschel Blaustein proposed to little Dora Schottland (already a couple of months pregnant, thanks to a dashing cad). Opening with a description of all-American Charlie Blair, a Wyoming FBI agent on the trail of a local militia group, and then jumping to the life of Lauren Miller, a New York reporter for the Jewish News who’s uncovering the latest in anti-Semitic bombings, the narrative unexpectedly mingles their lives: unbeknownst to all, they share a great-great-grandmother and the thread of a representative tale-the struggle to become American. ![]() ![]() With keen humor and fine characterizations, the bestselling Isaacs’s (Lily White, 1996, etc.) multigenerational saga explores the nature of American identity. ![]()
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