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"A coming-of-age story set during the rising tide of World War II, How to Find Your Way in the Dark follows Sheldon Horowitz from his humble start in a cabin in rural Massachusetts, through the trauma of his father's murder and the murky experience of assimilation in Hartford, Connecticut, to the birth of stand-up comedy in the Catskills-all while he and his friends are beset by anti-Semitic neighbors, employers, and criminals"-- 1938. Twelve-year old Sheldon Horowitz is still recovering from the tragic loss of his mother only a year ago when a suspicious traffic accident steals the life of…
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2 editions- Other · English · 2021Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company · 320 pages · 9780358269601
- Other · English · 2021Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company · 320 pages · 9780358270096
American literatureMurderFictionStand-up comedyOrphansAntisemitismJewsRevenge