"Most folk thought Sallie Kincaid was a nobody who'd amount to nothing. Sallie had other plans. Sallie Kincaid is the daughter of the biggest man in a small town, the charismatic Duke Kincaid. Born at the turn of the 20th century into a life of...
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Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky
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"Most folk thought Sallie Kincaid was a nobody who'd amount to nothing. Sallie had other plans. Sallie Kincaid is the daughter of the biggest man in a small town, the charismatic Duke Kincaid. Born at the turn of the 20th century into a life of comfort and privilege, Sallie remembers little about her mother who died in a violent argument with the Duke. By the time she is just eight years old, the Duke has remarried and had a son, Eddie. While Sallie is her father's daughter, sharp-witted and resourceful, Eddie is his mother's son, timid and cerebral. When Sallie tries to teach young Eddie to be more like their father, her daredevil coaching leads to an accident, and Sallie is cast out. Nine years later, she returns, determined to reclaim her place in the family. That's a lot more complicated than Sallie expected, and she enters a world of conflict and lawlessness. Sallie confronts the secrets and scandals that hide in the shadows of the Big House, navigates the factions in the family and town, and finally comes into her own as a bold, sometimes reckless bootlegger"--
Intro -- Book ICreation -- I The Family Morfawitz -- II Zev -- III The New World -- IV Yiddish Curses -- V Baumann's Beer Hall -- VI Asher -- VII Hersh -- VIII Hadassah's Attempt at Security -- IX Without Fathers -- Book IISons -- I On the River --...
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Intro -- Book ICreation -- I The Family Morfawitz -- II Zev -- III The New World -- IV Yiddish Curses -- V Baumann's Beer Hall -- VI Asher -- VII Hersh -- VIII Hadassah's Attempt at Security -- IX Without Fathers -- Book IISons -- I On the River -- II Racing Chariots -- III Marilyn Kowalski -- IV A Scandalous Wedding -- V The Servants Speak -- VI Horse Country -- VII Hersh Responds to Bribery -- VIII Hersh Is Exiled -- Book III: Homecoming -- I Another Family of Interest -- II The Rage of Hadassah -- III Harmonia -- IV Barnabas Cohn -- V Seraphina -- VI The Opinion of Tehrani -- VII Nico -- VIII Elizabeth Cho -- Epilogue: A Different View of Tower Morfawitz -- The Great Below -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author. When Hadassah Morfawitz flees Nazi Germany with her siblings and arrives in New York, she is determined to turn the city into her own Mount Olympus at any cost. In choosing orphaned concentration camp survivor Zev Kretinberg as her husband and accomplice -- ensuring his loyalty with the promise of riches and the burial of a dark past -- she begins a ruthless journey toward the upper echelons of Park Avenue synagogue society. Their combined ambition knows no limits, and nothing will stand in the way of their realization of the American ideals of wealth and beauty, even if it means abandoning their son, Hezekial. Decades later, through machinations worthy of his parents, Hezekial becomes entrusted as the family's chronicler. As he sits with his aging father, transcribing a litany of Zev's sins from serving as a kapo at Gusen, to betraying the friends who helped him, to his blood-bound commitment to Hadassah despite numerous affairs and illegitimate children the younger Morfawitz is faced with a choice: whitewash a lifetime of cruelty, indifference, and lust, or repay his mother at last
