The Apostate's Daughter

On a snowy morning in 1908, Baltimore police try to identify the corpse of a teenage boy who has frozen to death. Hes not a Polack, one says, or a Heinie, or a Guinea. No, the other replies, hes an Izzy. Some forty years later, Jennifer Miller, a college junior, has no idea that this dead boy has been shadowing her life. Her father, Lee, a man of many talents, has long ago broken with his immigrant family; shed his religion; transplanted his wife and daughter; and decided to raise Jennifer a Pro