Lelli's
that a Jewish
father could hate
his son.
Call It Sleep is
not an easy book.
But how can we
condemn the
schools for dumb-
ing down our chil-
dren's reading lists
if we give them
only those books
that can be swal-
lowed as easily as
that fake vanilla
pudding that
comes in plastic
cups?
For a slightly
older reader
say, late teens and
up — you cant go
wrong giving a
book by Bernard
Malamud. The
clear choices are
his novels The
Fixer and The
Assistant. But don't
forget The Magic
Barrel, whose sto-
ries feature young Jews trying to rec-
oncile the old and new worlds, the
rational and supernatural, the stric-
tures of middle-class Jewish life and
the terrifying freedom of the artist, the
tensions and affinities among
Christians, Jews and blacks.
If you feel compelled to give a
young friend a book about the
Holocaust, the best choices are The
Ghost Writer, in which Philip Roth
imagines a young writer encountering
a woman he takes to be Anne Frank,
grown now, not murdered, living in
New York, and the two-volume set of
Maus: A Survivor's Tale, by Art
Spiegelman.
The Maus books are not the comic-
book version of the Holocaust most
adults assume they must be, but a
revealing, deeply troubling and amaz-
ingly original work of art.
After you have introduced your
favorite young reader to the works of
the masters, you can follow up with
their successors: Pearl Abraham,
Michael Chabon, Robert Cohen,
Nathan Englander, Allegra Goodman,
Marcie Hershman, Maxine Rodburg,
Thane Rosenbaum.
Give one of the recent anthologies
of Jewish American fiction
American Jewish. Fiction, for one, or
America and I: Short Stories by
American Jewish Women Writers
and
the recipient will go out and find
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