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hen I was not listening to
the Tigers or playing
baseball or basketball
myself, I was reading,"
Max Apple writes in "The American
Bakery," a story about his emerging
love of language and the Detroit bakery
where his grandfather — well known
from Apple's memoir Roommates and
the film based on it — worked. While
growing up, Apple would visit the bak-
ery most afternoons for a snack and
then head to the nearby public library.
"In the high-ceilinged room, I sat
at a mahogany table. Across the street,
my grandpa in the heat of the ovens
was yelling at Joe Post in Polish and at
Philip Allen in Yiddish; here the
librarians whispered in English and
decorated me with ribbons like a war
hero, jut because I loved to read. The
books all in order, the smiling ladies
to approve me, the smooth tables,
even the maps on the wall seemed per-
fect to me. The marble floors of that
library were the stones of heaven, my

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Harvard and my Yale, my refuge in
the English language."
"The American Bakery" is included
in Here I Am: Contemporary Jewish
Stories fi-om Around the World (Jewish
Publication Society). It is one of the
titles recommended below for reading
on the last long holiday weekend of
summer — whether perched in an air
conditioned library, lounging at the
beach or poolside, squeezed into an air-
plane seat or suspended in a hammock.

Novels: Hardcover

• Four Mothers by Shifra Horn (St.
Martin's), a first novel that was a best-
seller in Israel, is a compelling multi-
generational saga set in Jerusalem, nar-
rated in the style of magical realism.
• Surrender; Dorothy by Meg
Wolitzer (Scribner) is the story of a
group of 20- and 30-something friends
— including a celebrated playwright
whose hit play is about Jewish life on
Mars — who deal with issues of friend-
ship, parents, death and growing up.
• The Paris Years of Rosie Kamin
by Richard Teleky (Steerforth) is a first
novel about an American Jewish

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