Hand in Hand: An Autobiographical Novel

From this prolific poet, author, and labor movement activist, a headily bittersweet love story set among the young Jewish literati of World War I-era New York City. One fateful winter night, Miriam Eidelberg finds herself strolling across the Williamsburg Bridge with her literary hero, the man whose poems she knows by heart. Nyezhiner, a star of the Yiddish artistic clique Di yunge "e;the young ones"e; is beguiled by the wistful girl at his side. But Miriam is married with a young daughter, while Nyezhiner, who is ten years her senior, has a wife, five children, and a womanizing reputation. Can these lovers find in each other the fulfillment they yearn for and at what cost?An indelible portrait of a fascinating milieu and a timeless inquiry into desire, freedom, and the wrenching compromises life demands, Hand in Hand shows an author at the height of her powers as a poet of the human heart.