Her First American

by Segal, Lore; Published by New York: Alfred A. Knopf (1985)

She’s Ilka Weissnix, a young Jewish refugee from Hitler’s Europe, newly arrived in the United States. He’s Carter Bayoux, her first American: a middle-aged, hard-drinking Black intellectual. Lore Segal’s brilliant novel is the story of their love affair–one of the funniest and saddest in modern fiction.

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