This memoir follows the author from an immigrant childhood through poverty, show-business dreams, and precarious young adulthood to the academic life in which she found her voice. Family history, sexual identity, class, and Jewish-American experience intersect here, turning one life story into a wider portrait of twentieth-century America.

One life becomes a lens for family memory and historical change.

A coming-of-age novel in which young men and women change through love, loss, and self-discovery over one summer. Beneath the bright dialogue lies a quiet accumulation of the distance between desire and reality.

A single summer of love and growth becomes an unforgettable memory.

A collection of Bayard Rustin's writings and related materials that bridges civil-rights history and gay liberation. It is more than an edited volume: it lets readers encounter the movement through Rustin's own words.

A black gay activist at the center of the civil-rights movement, told in his own words.

Another winner entry pointing to the same Bayard Rustin collected volume, and therefore the same bibliographic record. It rereads movement history through the activist's own statements.

Reconstructing an era of activism through Rustin's political voice.