Drawing to an inside straight the legacy of an absent father /

"Varon interweaves recollections of growing up in Vietnam-era Denver with stories of her gambler father, son of Sephardic Jewish immigrants, and offers an introduction to Sephardic culture contrasted with Ashkenazic culture, examines the forging of identity within the potentially destructive America...

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Hovedforfatter: Varon, Jodi, 1953-
Institution som forfatter: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronisk eBog
Sprog:engelsk
Udgivet: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 2006.
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