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How to find your way in the dark  Cover Image Book Book

How to find your way in the dark / Derek B. Miller.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780358269601 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 355 pages ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021.
Subject: Parents > Death > Fiction.
Murder > Fiction.
Revenge > Fiction.
Jews > United States > Fiction.
Stand-up comedy > Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 > United States > Fiction.
Genre: Bildungsromans.
Historical fiction.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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DEREK B. MILLER has worked on international peace and security for think tanks, diplomatic missions, and the United Nations. His first novel, Norwegian by Night, was an Indies Choice Honor Book, an Economist Best Book of 2013, and a winner of the CWA’s John Creasey Dagger Award. His second novel, The Girl in Green, was published in 2017. Born and raised in Boston, Miller has lived abroad for more than fifteen years, in Norway, Switzerland, Britain, Israel, and Hungary. He now lives in Oslo, Norway, with his wife and two children.


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