The Draw

A "What We're Reading This Summer" Pick by The Atlantic The Draw is a "spellbinding, coming-of-age tour de force" ( New York Times Book Review ) about a boy striving to make his way up through society and out of a family that has been emotionally and psychologically devastated by economic misfortune. Lee Siegel’s father, Monroe, a kind and decent man, accumulates a crushing debt to the company he works for, a real estate firm that has been paying him an advance, or “draw,” against future commiss