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The Angel of Forgetfulness
by Steve Stern

October 2005
Steve Stern draws from his knowledge of Yiddish literature to create a brilliant work of fiction that weaves together the story of a Jewish teenager from Memphis and his elderly aunt in New York's Lower East Side.


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